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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: