Ebbw Vale employment change

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Ebbw Vale employment change

• an area affected by recent job losses

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Ask anyone in Wales what they know about Ebbw
Vale and it's almost certain the answer will
include the word "steel."
Main Steelworks closed 1978
The tinplate works closed 2002 800 jobs lost
(Secondary Industry / male)
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Ebbw Vale Festival Park Shopping
1990s
The WDA (Welsh Development Agency), local
authorities and the private sector spent
60million on converting the area from a
wasteland of spoil heaps into the Ebbw Vale
Garden Festival. Festival Park Factory Shopping
Village is now located on this site.
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Even now, after a reshaping and shrinking of the
industry, the Corus tinplate works looms large
over the community and is estimated to be worth
30m to the local economy.
Corus tinplate works closed 2002
A more depressing claim to fame is the town
having the highest unemployment rate in Wales.
Already 2,000 are looking for work and the
problem is set to get worse at a stroke, with the
closure of its steelworks.
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Yuasa 2003
The town is already suffering from the downturn
in manufacturing. A worryingly high number of
local jobs - 40 - depend on this sector - twice
the national average.
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One of Blaenau Gwent's biggest employers has
announced that it is shedding up to 350
jobs. Continental Teves which makes brake
calipers for the motor industry is switching
production to Slovakia.
The German-owned company said low-volume
production for manufacturers like Porsche and
Aston Martin will remain in Ebbw Vale. This will
mean a total of 120 jobs will remain in the area.
2006
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Supermarkets Part-Time / flexi Open 24hours /
7days Fast food Home delivery
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REGENERATION passenger rail link to Newport and
Cardiff 2007