Rising costs and consumer preference for chunkier SUVs prompt move with output set to be reduced by at least 60,000 cars
Vauxhall workers will hear on Monday that nearly a quarter of jobs at the company’s Ellesmere Port site are being cut as the carmaker adapts to the decline of the traditional family car and rising costs.
About 400 of the 1,800 jobs at the site are expected to go by Christmas, largely via voluntary redundancies, as demand for the Astra continues to slip in favour of chunkier and trendier SUVs.