Twinings Management Say To Sacked Staff: "Train Your Foreign Replacements!"

Twinings, which manufactures tea on Tyneside are about to sack 263 people before moving their plant to Poland to cut costs and increase profits.

Company bosses have also had the audacity to ask their soon to be unemployed staff if they would like to help train their Polish replacements when they come to Tyneside to begin training.

One employee, who did not want to be named, told the Evening Chronicle: “It’s rubbing salt in the wound because they are taking our jobs yet we have to train them."

A representative of Twinings explained how there would be two waves of employees from Poland visiting North Shields for three weeks at a time.

She also said: “Next week Twinings will be welcoming a handful of new employees from Poland to the North Shields site. They will be visiting to familiarise themselves with the tea-making process and receive training."