{"id":552687,"date":"2026-04-27T04:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/552687\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T04:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:13:16","slug":"job-cuts-raise-fears-for-jobs-at-nestle-factory-in-cumbria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/552687\/","title":{"rendered":"Job cuts raise fears for jobs at Nestl\u00e9 factory in Cumbria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The food manufacturing business announced on Thursday (April 23) that more than 450 jobs will be cut across the UK as part of a major restructuring programme.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  While most of the redundancies are expected at sites in York and Gatwick, union GMB has warned that other factories could also be affected, including operations in Cumbria.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Nestle has a factory in Dalston, Cumbria, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsandstar.co.uk\/news\/25631470.nestle-announces-28-million-investment-cumbrian-factory\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">which just recently received a \u00a328 million investment for new production lines and upgrades.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Charlotte\u00a0Brumpton-Childs, GMB National Secretary, said:\u00a0&#8220;These job cuts will\u00a0rip the heart out of communities.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Nestle workers \u2013 who make some of the UK\u2019s best loved treats \u2013 have already put up with years of uncertainty and job losses.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;GMB will working closely with members\u00a0and the company to ease the pain of\u00a0these cuts as much as possible.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A Nestle spokesperson said: \u201cWe said in 2025 that we will reduce our global workforce by 16,000 and that process is ongoing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;As always, we will manage any changes in the right way and in consultation with our people.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Any proposed changes will always be shared with those affected first and we have no further update to give at this time.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Nestl\u00e9 Dalston has produced Nescaf\u00e9 Frothy Coffee since 1962.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The food manufacturing business announced on Thursday (April 23) that more than 450 jobs will be cut across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-552687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}