High-Tech Jobs in Llangennech

Nia Griffith MP wants to see Thales expand its business at the new Llangennech plant. The factory fits Warthog vehicles with high-tech communications systems, and now Nia is talking to company managers about fitting out police and emergency vehicles too.

Camfords Jobs Saved

Outside ThyssenKrupp Tallent - Nia joins Union reps Dai Bowen and Clive Richards

ThyssenKrupp Tallent is shelving closure plans and talking of bringing more work to their Felinfoel “Camfords” plant. Dai Bowen, Camfords Unite Union rep said “Our MP Nia Griffith has backed us all the way. She pulled out all the stops for the German bosses to demonstrate the benefits of staying in Llanelli.”

Now the Llanelli MP is calling on the Welsh Assembly Government to help finance new lines at the plant. Nia says, “Bringing jobs to the area is the most important way of improving living standards and putting more money into the local economy. It’s about talking up Llanelli and the skills of our local workforce.”

PM listens directly to the concerns of business and community leaders in Llanelli

Prime Minister Gordon Brown took tea and cake last weekend with more than a dozen community leaders from the Llanelli constituency. During the informal meeting in Dafen, Gordon Brown met with people from industry, healthcare, charity and churches.

“It is really important to meet people and it is really interesting. I can talk to people from different communities that come together,” Gordon Brown said.

“It is not me talking at people it is me listening to what people say.”

Jobs Boost at Camfords Car Plant

Nia meeting with representatives of the Unite Union at the plant

There’s exciting news at ThyssenKrupp Tallent as the company shelves closure plans and begin talks of bringing more work to their Felinfoel plant, better known to many as Camfords.

Commenting on the good news, Dai Bowen, Unite Union rep at the plant said “Our MP Nia Griffith has backed us all the way; she has cancelled other engagements at very short notice to go and make our case to German bosses in the Midlands and over at company headquarters in Germany”

Nia explained “ It’s about talking up Llanelli, putting Llanelli on the map, telling the German bosses about our skilled workforce and getting them to visit the plant to see for themselves the capacity we have for expansion, and how easy it is to get from the Midlands down the motorway to Llanelli. I’m now calling on the Welsh Assembly Government to help finance new lines at the plant. Bringing jobs to the area is the most important way of improving living standards and putting more money into the local economy”