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 company confirmed the move on Thursday. It said in a statement that the cuts would affect administrative and not production areas. Bombardier's sites in Switzerland would become more specialised to cut costs and improve productivity, the firm added. 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 said on Friday that it would be delivering ...
