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Nissan

Jarra Dicka said:
Noticed there was a lot of angry workers today.
Shift allowance goes this month and the September overtime is another crippler.
I ll defend Nissan as much as I can but the place is turning into an absolute hell hole for their staff
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I’ve touched on how they treat people previously on here and got absolute pelters for it from one poster in particular. Fair enough if it gives you what you need month to month etc but I called the place for what i believe it to be and treatment of staff seems to show it for what it is, in reality we are all just a number. Despite the abuse threats amongst other stuff I was subject to from one poster I wish all employees luck and hope it works out. Look at your options is my advice as surely it can’t last forever as it is
 
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fugitivemackem said:
I’ve touched on how they treat people previously on here and got absolute pelters for it from one poster in particular. Fair enough if it gives you what you need month to month etc but I called the place for what i believe it to be and treatment of staff seems to show it for what it is, in reality we are all just a number. Despite the abuse threats amongst other stuff I was subject to from one poster I wish all employees luck and hope it works out. Look at your options is my advice as surely it can’t last forever as it is
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Not everyone is treat the same way across the whole company
 
TDalt said:
My cousins asked one of the mid level managers about the missing overtime as he had planned on it for something. The answer was, don’t rely on overtime.
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The argument I used to have with my manager in there was around O/T

If they’re saying don’t rely on overtime, surely they shouldn’t plan on staff working it.

It works both ways, some employers conveniently forget that.
 
legend73 said:
I’m amazed people still pay the prices. £350 a month for something that’s never gonna be yours. Was great until the prices got silly.
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Most people pay similar prices for new cars on finance or pcp. Ppl on finance tend to pay for 3 years, then trade in for another, so its never theres either.
 
legend73 said:
I’m amazed people still pay the prices. £350 a month for something that’s never gonna be yours. Was great until the prices got silly.
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Taxed ,insured and maintained , that was an absolute bargain not taking into account the NI and PAYE savings.
 
Top of the range, 1 year old, ex nevos QQ on Cinch. Zero deposit, £600 pm for 2 years on 12000 miles limit per year. Then insurance on top of that. Thats PCP
 
From The Times

Nissan’s trouble in Sunderland should worry Labour strategists​


Disaster is looming at Britain’s last big volume car manufacturer. If ministers aren’t preparing, their industrial strategy isn’t worth the name​

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Tuesday August 26 2025, 10.25pm, The Times



Politics will always trump policy, the short-term imperative eclipsing the long-term strategic goal. Fifty years ago this autumn, the UK outpost of the American auto giant Chrysler was in crisis. The Wilson government of the mid-1970s, limping from predicament to calamity, nonetheless prided itself on having an industrial strategy that would determine policy decisions: the regeneration of British industry and enhancing economic performance was paramount, and no more supporting lame ducks.
But just as few military battleplans survive engagement with the enemy, so not many industrial strategies stand up to a looming catastrophe.
Chrysler’s Michigan headquarters decided to close its plants in the Midlands and near Glasgow. Despite the impending loss of thousands of jobs, ministers initially took a Darwinian view that there was no point intervening, especially on behalf of a US multinational.


Chrysler then hinted it may have a rescue plan. Wilson, with one eye on the rise of Scottish nationalism and the future of Scotland’s last car plant, and the other on his wafer-thin parliamentary majority, folded and ordered a Treasury-backed rescue. Industrial strategy was, after all, about backing lame ducks — as the subsequent demise of Chrysler UK testifies.
Fifty years later, two reasons can be given for the series of interventions by the latest Labour government in
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: ten years of Conservative governments putting off a reckoning on what the UK’s steel industry should look like; and a political landscape in which every industrial crisis risks being a gift to Reform UK.
Meanwhile, a cataclysm may be arriving on the horizon. The decline and possible fall of Nissan as an international automotive firm is playing out in plain sight.
Nissan’s
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is emblematic for the UK. It is the country’s last big volume car manufacturer, a totem for the transition to electric motoring and investment in gigafactories, the country’s largest single automotive plant, and it provides 7,000 jobs in the northeast, where it is the biggest private sector employer.
Nissan is regarded as having, in Sunderland, one of the best workforces in the world and a factory pre-eminent in productivity.
Yet the plant can’t afford its runaway energy bills nor its inflated labour costs, exacerbated by increases in employment taxes.
Nissan Sunderland may not yet become another Chrysler UK. But if Labour ministers are not preparing for the multiple what-ifs of a disaster in the northeast then their industrial strategy is not worth the ink and paper.
 
You can get a pretty decent second hand car for around 15k, plenty have left the nevos and got something they actually like and no not on PCP. Maybe a loan and a few grand towards it will get you something for WAY under £350 a month. Nevos is only convenient that’s the only benefit to them.
There’s plenty nice BMW’s Audis VWs in the car park and I bet they are cheaper. And at least they have something they want and have something to part ex for the next car. Can’t understand people want to pay a fortune to drive summit they never stop looking at all day and then giving the company money back to drive one.
£350 a month for convenience is madness.
 
I've just being told by my supervisor the reason why line 1 will be doing back to back Saturdays (30th and 6th) is to get line 1 in line with working the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of every month.

Can anyone confirm if this is true of not.
 
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