Tees Business #4 | Page 41

Serving the Teesside Business Community | 41 / REDCAR & CLEVELAND NEWS BOULBY BLOW IS ‘UTTER DISASTER’ – MP Left: A total of 700 jobs will eventually be lost at Boulby Potash mine. A Teesside MP has described the Boulby jobs blow as an “absolute and utter disaster”. A total of 360 workers, including 220 staff and 140 contractors, will lose their jobs at Boulby potash mine, staff have been told by mine owner ICL UK. It’s the latest major jobs blow to Teesside following the demise of the SSI steelworks at Redcar and Air Products site at Billingham. Middlesbrough MP Andy McDonald told Tees Business: