Impending shutdown has severe impact on Salo
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“Shutting down production at the Salo factory has a great symbolic significance for residents of Salo as well as for Finns”, Leskelä says.
He says that his mobile phone was ringing non-stop on Wednesday evening.
Most of the employees walking out of the main gate of the factory refused to say anything to journalists standing there with microphones extended.
In the afternoon, engineer Jani Tuomela rode out of the main gate on his bicycle.
“It is unfortunate that Nokia is leaving Salo. It is here that the first telephones were assembled.”
Tuomela, who has worked in product development since 2003, does not make any predictions on what will happen to R&D. However, he is optimistic about his own future.
“There will always be work for people who do things.”
Leskelä says that it now seems that all 1,800 product development employees will keep their jobs in Salo. However, the job cuts that have been announced are set to raise unemployment in Salo to about 20 per cent.
Project worker Pirjo Batalha is not bitter as she walks into the factory area.
“I have been at work here for more than 20 years and I have always been loyal and grateful for my job.”
“This isn’t Nokia’s fault – it’s about the situation on the world market. It could just as well have been any other company”, Batalha says.
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