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189 valuable local jobs at National Grid’s Newcastle office are under threat. As part of a company review, National Grid are threatening to close their Newcastle operation and offshore the work to low wage economies such as India.

GMB, Unison and Unite are fighting to oppose these cuts and have launched a campaign to keep the Newcastle operation open. This year National Grid posted profits of almost £3bn. This is a 12% increase on last year.

National Grid is responsible for large parts of the electricity distribution as well as gas distribution and transmission infrastructure in the UK. As such National Grid is set to benefit from the huge investment the country will need to modernise the energy infrastructure.

The sacking of the Newcastle workers is completely unnecessary and represents the worst type of corporate greed. The fact that National Grid could be contemplating offshoring work to low wage economies in the midst of such a deep recession, which will make it impossible for Newcastle workers to find comparable employment, is nothing short of shameful.

The Newcastle workforce have played a key role in helping the company prosper into a successful multi billion pound business. It is time for the Company shows its workforce in Newcastle the same loyalty and commitment that the workers have given them.

The workers at Newcastle demand jobs and justice.

You can help by

1 Signing the GMB petition at

www.nationalgreed.co.uk

2 Writing to National Grid’s Chief

Executive: Steven Holliday,

National Grid, 1–3 Strand,

LondonWC2N 5EH

3 Emailing him at

steven.holliday@ngrid.com

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