Canadian plane-maker Bombardier will cut about 650 jobs in Switzerland by the end of 2018, the largest Swiss trade union said on Thursday. The job cuts, which include almost 500 temporary postings, will come from Bombardier facilities in Villeneuve and Zurich, Unia announced on its website. That would remove well more than half of the company’s employees in Switzerland. The Canadian aerospace and railway equipment manufacturer recently won a major new contract with Swiss Federal Railways, which is expected to take delivery of 23 new Twindexx Swiss Express trains from Bombardier by the end of this year, three years after the originally projected delivery date. Bombardier, which operates in more than 60 countries, says it has around 1,000 employees at its Swiss offices in Zurich, Villeneuve, Winterthur and Oberwil. Bombardier Transportation, with its headquarters in Berlin, won the tender to supply the double-decker trains for intercity rail travel in June 2012. It ...
