Outsourcing by Nokia Siemens Networks has caused the loss of 50 jobs in Finland. The company outsourced 60 workers to the IBX company at the start of February. Soon afterwards, IBX decided to move the work to other locations, among them India.
Capgemini, the company that owns IBX, has so far found new work for just 20 percent of the workers. More Finnish employees will lose their jobs from next January.
The news has surprised workers at Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN).
”We shop stewards feel like we’ve been made a fool of in this case,” said head shop steward at NSN Oulu, Markku Mattila.
NSN announced the outsourcing last autumn, and implemented it in February of this year. According to Mattila, the new employer started lay-off talks just two months after the outsourcing process.
”It’s a bitter disappointment, and it’s difficult to understand,” said Mattila. ”NSN has outsourced a lot over the years, and this is the first time it has happened like this.”
Mattila says that shop stewards knew during the outsourcing process that some of the jobs would move to India, but they pressed for guarantees that new tasks would be found in Finland for the affected workers.
Ann Schwemler, the Capgemini manager responsible for the outsourced workers, says that the company is still trying to find new tasks for the workers in Finland, either within Capgemini or elsewhere.
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