Bombardier cuts 490 jobs at Belfast plant

FILE PHOTO: A man walks past the Bombardier plant in Belfast, Northern Ireland January 26, 2018. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo - Copyright Clodagh Kilcoyne(Reuters)

By Reuters

Published on 21/11/2018 - 14:04•Updated 27/04/2024 - 07:10

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Belfast (Reuters) - Bombardier Inc <BBDb.TO> is to cut 490 jobs at its Belfast operations, the Canadian company announced on Wednesday.

The company, the biggest high-tech manufacturer in Northern Ireland and one of the region's most important foreign investors, currently employs just under 4,000 people there, most at a wing-making plant in Belfast.