seen the news today not looking very good for me,worked there for 19 yrs ,thinking what should i do next,the plants going to get mothballed so that means they dont have to pay you plant closure money,another con,so it probaly will be a weeks wage for every year ive been there,imsure you can go to colledge for two years through a gover ment scheme ,anyone no anything about it,

 

as youve been there so long you might be into the week and a half or 2 weeks per year.
whats plant closure money? something extra on top of redundancy?

 

you get extra foe a full plant shut down of the goverment but dont quote me on this the reason they mothball is so all the land they have doesnt be have to put back to how it was ie grassland.another money saving scheme.and my pension gets frozen been putting 80 pound a month away for 19 years wont get it till 65 now if we shut.

 

and thats if they haven't spent ya pension money

 

it has been done before

 

fuck dude,feel sorry for ya,we deliver there now and then,but its not so bad for us,cunts trick fucking you over as if the goverment hasnt fucked us enough,surely corus will save it? i mean they could rid rotherham really,newport had a similiar sort of thing didnt it and thet muddled through?

 

thanks kosman been on nights had a briefing last night doesnt seem good at all,working our 90 days notice now expect to get about 19000 reduncey,worked there since leaving school.could try to get on the rigs but think yhere in the same boat to.just when my rs is about to be finished.

 

isnt statutory redundancy upto Ł350 per week per year of service? it used to be unless theyre offering you enhanced payments?

 

what do you do mulla? the rigs where wanting off shore sparky's but not to everyones taste

 

your not the only one mate, i work in the plant that supplies corus with all the pieces and crucibles for there steel works, as soon as they heard the news yesterday the management came out and switched all the machines off. The corus plants getting mothballed cos they want to try and open it agian in a few years and it would cost too much to close it. To be honest i knew this was coming.

i'm ok as im a maintenance enginner in the plant but a few operator's got paid off

 

its wank innit pal,especially when your car nearly sorted,if i lost my job my saff would be parked up and id be gutted,plenty of people in same position unfortuanely.

 

we get a weeks wage for evrey year ive been there,when we had a briefing tho i work at the coke ovens supposedly your cannot turn one of once its been lit,otherwise it falls to bits as it cools down,they are going to idle the blastfurnace which means keep it warm but with no iron in it,with have 2 batteries one is going to be idled which will keep the other one warm ,it has happened twice before they never recovered.

 

Aye ... I worked at Corus for a few year ... Contactor for Multi-serve, Bran-Sand's and Tee's port ....Big body blow for the area that they are gonna shut the furnace down ... Once the Furnace is shut off it takes alot of ŁŁŁ to restart the thing ... Good old boy told me they would run till it broke .. Projected the last 5 year of the contract.

The chemical Industry is on the decline as well.

Hope ya get sorted mate ... I have load's of good memorys of the place and enjoyed working within Redcar works ...

 

Proper shit news this. It's probably gonna have a knock-on effect on our plant. Especially with Invista Nylon shutting down and PTA at Wilton being on an extended shutdown. Doing my offshore survival next week but not too sure if that will be of much use.


Mulla, which coke ovens do you work at because if the SBCO shuts we'll be affected but heard rumours that will stay open cos there is a demand for coke.

 

Its bad news I worked in there myself a few years back as a contractor and they went through a tuff period then when they talked about closing it. It will be bad news for the area in general as it will no doubt kill off all the local suppliers etc.

Its worth trying offshore but things have slowed right down in the north sea aswell, I have a few mates working both offshore and onshore in aberdeen and they are all saying there has been cutbacks on recruitment.

I hope you get sorted out with something else soon.

 

Not good news at all mate! i work offshore and tbh i wouldnt go away and waste money on an rgit at this point in time cos like people have said its a bad time to try and get offshore as people are thinking of paying off and have done already so i reckon it would be very hard to try and get a start but good luck anyway hope things work out for you mate this country is slowly falling apart

 

gutted for u mate.really are hard times at the mo.so many people losing there jobs.i work for banbury roofing centre and we use corus,so i sharnt be putiing any orders that way then

 

More closures in the north east sorry to hear youre losing your job mate

What job do you do at Corus Mulla?

 

I was made redundant the week before Christmas , had to mothball my FRST but now found another job ..... better pay and less hours ..... remember keep your head up and something will come along , I know it seems shit at the moment but if you let em grind you down then it makes the whole situation worse.

 

thanks heard today the brickies at south bank coke ovens got 5 weeks notice on friday,i work at redcar coke ovens,south bank had a briefing today looks like it going to shut,we are going to idle probaly but not certain we hope the italians who wanted us are just seeing if corus will reduce there price to buy,i was told today you have to put the land its built on back to normal 10 years ago it cost 400 million,dont know what it will cost now

 

red 16 i am a process operator ie press buttons

 

sorry to hear that mulla mate ,

least your turbos pretty much paid for , be able to enjoy that at croft lol ,

i heard that sam and a few of his mates lost there jobs the other day bud,

shitter at the moment , im tempted to start looking further afeild for graft if the one or two things im lining up dont come off ....


beef

 

thanks beef good job i have payed for the car only a few daft bits to get,i just need the italians to come back and sighn the deal at work,were all hoping they are trying to get it cheaper now,whos going to pay the full price of a buisness in this recession,once they idle the blast furnace which means keep it empty,quite a few plants will be mothballed but the buisness will be alot cheaper to buy as hardly any workforce,

 

feel for you mate, Im at the Scunthorpe Corus site. We had all this malarky just after xmas....

Luckily I kept my job.. only just.. I have lost Ł600 a month....

Any chance of a cross-match to Scunthorpe?

 

dont know nickscunny maybe cross matches.you wouldnt believe but my last name is mullarkey lol.

 

I know alot of the Rotherham lads that have been offered Cross-matches are going to Rail Service Centre....

Lol didnt know your last name lol

 

shit news mate

its only took 5 months for the motor trade to pick up a bit so lets hope its the same or less for the steel industry

 

the motor trades on the up then? im seeing glimmers of hope in the building trade as well.

 

That will be too late, once furnace cools your talking Ł160+ million to get it going again, steel making on Teesside is dead.

 

hi mate shit news for you but youll here loads of rumours in that place most of it crap im affraid i worked in corus in newport for more than 10 years and glad i got out around 4 years ago to be honest still got loads of really good friends there and even my dad is still there going through what you are now. but im really sorry to say this but the 400 million to put the land back right is utter bollocks as they demolished our coke ovens when i was there around 6 years ago and that land was supposed to cost a fortune to put right but its been done and the cost was only around a quarter of that even less to be quite frank as it cost around 100 million to completely level our coke ovens, sinter plant,2 blast funaces and our concast and return the land to what they deemed fit i.e houses and a new school has been earmarked for that land now! not that i believe its clean land again i just think they paid somebody a big enough backhander to declare the land safe again. Sorry to be so depressive mate id just prefer the truth instead of all the bull that goes round im affraid thats why i guess i had enough and left,and lucky now for me that i did although do really miss the crack that we had there,ive got a better job now although i dont think ill ever have a job with the mates and fun that i had there and that is priceless memories now im afraid and i dont think il ever find it again now that there shutting all the steel works down just like they did the mines BASTARD GOVERMENT!

 

sorry to hear of your bad newshopefully something good will come your way like a new job more pay less hours

 

i see what you mean justin wouldnt like any kids to go to a school whats been built on a coke ovens.you know how managment talk at briefings they usually just say what they have been told,like we are trying to save you,otherwise i think most are fed up and would probaly go on the sick,its the ones with the big morgages and kids i feel sorry for,im hoping to scrape by no my luck tho probaly wont be entitled to any benefits even tho ive never been out of work and payed all my taxes

 

i know a few people who lost there jobs at corus in rotherham, they had been there like 20+ years but got some massive pay offs

 

payoffs all go on your age mate im 37 so get less even tho ive been there 19 years

 

i know the thought on going on the sick mate was exactly like that down with us but as part of the redundacy payment we got an offer of an extra Ł2000 not to go sick so maybe youll get that also? but it was a three strikes and out case i.e if you break their rules once they deducted X amout from the 2K and so on until youve got nothing! although i will say this most people did get the full Ł2000 if thats any consolation mate!

 

we used take 8loads a day in 2corus@rotherham,now take 1,and port talbot was 15load a day now there having none,its fucked us up,haulage looked like it was getting better but these past 2weeks its gone quiet again so hoping for the best.i.e it picks up again.

 

if you read the local gazette the italians still say they are buying the company,the works manager says he has heard nothing yet,and the deal is still on the table .who knows they just keep messing with peoples lives.since ive started this thread it just shows how many people are having the knock on effect from this