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12 March 2009
Workers have their say
 

NCR employee Brian Stewart outside the Gourdie plant

 
Brian Stewart, an assembly line worker at the plant, said most of the staff had expected the announcement. He said, “We knew it was coming — we just didn’t know when. I’m not that angry — we all knew it was going to happen.”
The 55-year-old, from Fintry, Dundee, said he had been made redundant in the first round of job cuts, but had managed to be taken back on.

He said, “It isn’t as bad for me, but some people have been there for years and will really feel it.”

Assembly line worker Ross Morrison said, “Most of the people here have given 15 to 30 years of loyal service to make Dundee NCR the pinnacle of the industry. We just feel it was inevitable. We knew it was coming but we just had a slight hope it would last and we’d get through the hard times.

“It just feels like we have been badly managed — we’re dealing with a massive American company that doesn’t care about anyone apart from its shareholders. At the end of the day it is good well-paid jobs that are leaving Dundee. We’ll just have to move on. Nobody has died. Life goes on and I have a wife and a son to support and I will support them the best I can.”