MORE than 200 jobs are to go at Rolls Royce plants at Inchinnan and East Kilbride.
Staff have been told that around 180 posts are going at Inchinnan, which manufactures aircraft engines, reducing shop floor workers by a third.
Another 30 will be lost at the repair and maintenance base at East Kilbride.
Unions hit out at the cuts, which come on top of 500 posts lost at Inchinnan since 2007.
Unite regional officer, Debbie Hutchings said: "These cuts are a huge loss of skills to the Scottish economy and will lead to a further hollowing out of the company's skills base in Scotland.
"Decent jobs are being taken out of the local economy in a short-term move which will undermine Scottish engineering.
"There is every danger that Rolls-Royce will shoot itself in the foot with this move and face a skills shortage when there is an upturn in orders.
"The company needs to give assurances over its long term plans for manufacturing in Scotland and provide guarantees over no compulsory redundancies."
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