A warning has been made over future work for Nissan’s Sunderland plant, despite the factory announcing its highest number of new apprentices.
The automotive giant has announced 140 apprenticeship positions in a variety of roles, winning praise from a Government Minister and saying the roles are an investment in the “talent of the future”. But the company's chief operating officer Ashwani Gupta has sounded a note of caution over future work at Sunderland, saying that rising business costs in the UK could affect the decision on where it made future models of the Juke and Qashqai.
Nissan has invested hundreds of millions of pounds into the Sunderland plant in recent years, opening a new production line and committing to a major plan to build electric vehicles in the North East.
