Pfizer to close with job looses not fully reported
Written by Matt B · first published 01/02/2011
Pfizer have announced the closure of it's Sandwich base and estimates the total job loses to be 2,400 which is a gross understatement.
While it might be true that Pfizer will be shedding two and a half thousand of it's own directly employed staff an estimated 3,000 additional jobs exist because of Pfizer but on paper, at any rate, they are classed as employees of contractors. Many is the story of workers whose department has been closed but have been left in the same job as outside companies take over the risk and cash flow side of things.
So when Pfizer say they are no longer going to be investing in Allergy & Respiratory therapeutic research at the cost of 2,400 thousand jobs what they mean is that they are closing the site at the cost of 5,500 jobs and at the expense of several other companies.
In case you are wondering the closure will take place over two years just in time for the road upgrades they asked for to be finished. Of course to not appear the bad guy they have made all the right noises about setting up "partnerships" to keep the site in use. MP Charlie Elphicke has, according to other sources, been going on about setting up a "Silicone Valley of the future" showing that he clearly does not understand the lack of fibre network investment that has been keeping the IT industry away from this side of Kent and Thanet particularly. This lack of investment has kept broadband prices high and speeds low in this area and makes Thanet and the surrounding area very unattractive to high end IT investment.
Thanet is like the IT equivalent of a village with a bus that runs once a week if the weather is nice. Even Simon Moores has spent the last six or more years telling us that Thanet Council's IT push is at best laughable and in this he is right on the money.
So boys and girls roughly one in 150 people or about 0.75% of the people of Thanet are all set to loose their jobs. Of those 3,400 are highly qualified people who like the rest of us highly qualified people are going to be competing for Thanet's overall lack of that kind of work. Canterbury might be a bit more up market but I can assure you that there is not a lot going on in that job market because I've been applying for going and it is usually going on a lot further away. Too far if I'm honest.
While it might be true that Pfizer will be shedding two and a half thousand of it's own directly employed staff an estimated 3,000 additional jobs exist because of Pfizer but on paper, at any rate, they are classed as employees of contractors. Many is the story of workers whose department has been closed but have been left in the same job as outside companies take over the risk and cash flow side of things.
So when Pfizer say they are no longer going to be investing in Allergy & Respiratory therapeutic research at the cost of 2,400 thousand jobs what they mean is that they are closing the site at the cost of 5,500 jobs and at the expense of several other companies.
In case you are wondering the closure will take place over two years just in time for the road upgrades they asked for to be finished. Of course to not appear the bad guy they have made all the right noises about setting up "partnerships" to keep the site in use. MP Charlie Elphicke has, according to other sources, been going on about setting up a "Silicone Valley of the future" showing that he clearly does not understand the lack of fibre network investment that has been keeping the IT industry away from this side of Kent and Thanet particularly. This lack of investment has kept broadband prices high and speeds low in this area and makes Thanet and the surrounding area very unattractive to high end IT investment.
Thanet is like the IT equivalent of a village with a bus that runs once a week if the weather is nice. Even Simon Moores has spent the last six or more years telling us that Thanet Council's IT push is at best laughable and in this he is right on the money.
So boys and girls roughly one in 150 people or about 0.75% of the people of Thanet are all set to loose their jobs. Of those 3,400 are highly qualified people who like the rest of us highly qualified people are going to be competing for Thanet's overall lack of that kind of work. Canterbury might be a bit more up market but I can assure you that there is not a lot going on in that job market because I've been applying for going and it is usually going on a lot further away. Too far if I'm honest.
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