To up to 4,500 jobs in the uk, as part of restructuring plans to make it more profitable. Three call centres, in sunderland, hull and worcester, could be closed. Unions have called it a cruel blow for the compa nys workers in the run up to christmas. Our economics correspondent andy verity has more details. Sunderland, where workers used to be told that manufacturing was the past and call centres were the future. Not any more. A few miles away, near the town of houghton le spring, 2500 Call Centre Workers were among those told by npower today theirjobs were going. Disappointment, but its a shame, theres nothing else we can do. Ill take it one step at a time. Im still going to do myjob, still going to do the best i can, and take it from there. Its a heavy blow for an area already reeling from bad economic news. The future does look bleak, to be honest. Youve got tata, youve got british gas. For 2000 people to lose theirjob, what else is going to replace thatjob . Where are they going to
Three major indices are making a little bit of a comeback. The s p 500 is just above the flatline. The dow up by a third of a percent. Brexit is weighing heavy on what everyone is looking at in terms of the trade. We did see a new poll out of the u. K. Leaning toward brexit, but the keys in the u. K. Are seeing Something Different with odds slipping to 38 after surpassing 44, so ware seeing a little bit of a lift in the market. We can see that a little more announced as we go to the dow intraday. Out, weose numbers came can see we started flirting with a flatline and we are up about. 3 , trying to lock in those gains with about one hour left in trade. At its lowest point, we were down by about 168 points. A big range in todays movement. Lets look at what is happening plus 10 imf and the s p sectors here. In the last hour, six of the 10 sectors in the red and weve done a little push ahead from that with three sectors now in the red, energy still the biggest laggard. We can see the green
The vice chair the senior person will take over thats why im sitting here and we have a Short Commission and long agenda ill be limiting the Public Comments to 2 minutes and the other headache item the pour just want is included in cca well not be hearing that as part of general managers report and the only items in closed session is item 16 and 7 by 7 the rest off calendar with that, commissioners you have. Excuse me. Yeah. I want clarification the cca update not the pour update is part of the not to exceed. Im sorry not the power update but the cca update. Okay. Thank you. Any office of the city administrator other clarifications then commissioners you have copies of the april 18th additions, deletions, or changes can i have a motion. So moved. Second. Is there a motion and a second nephews. Opposed . The motion carries Public Comment . Items not on the agenda for today but under the pressure view of the commission those are the comments were ready for, thank you ann clark ill be fas
p. Good afternoon id like to call to order the tuesday, may 12, 2015 madam secretary call the roll. Commissioner moran commissioner courtney commissioner quan and commissioner president caen is excused let me start with first of all an explanation of rules of order in the absence of the chair and the vice chair the senior person will take over thats why im sitting here and we have a Short Commission and long agenda ill be limiting the Public Comments to 2 minutes and the other headache item the pour just want is included in cca well not be hearing that as part of general managers report and the only items in closed session is item 16 and 7 by 7 the rest off calendar with that, commissioners you have. Excuse me. Yeah. I want clarification the cca update not the pour update is part of the not to exceed. Im sorry not the power update but the cca update. Okay. Thank you. Any office of the city administrator other clarifications then commissioners you have copies of the april 18th additions
Good afternoon id like to call to order the tuesday, may 12, 2015 madam secretary call the roll. Commissioner moran commissioner courtney commissioner quan and commissioner president caen is excused let me start with first of all an explanation of rules of order in the absence of the chair and the vice chair the senior person will take over thats why im sitting here and we have a Short Commission and long agenda ill be limiting the Public Comments to 2 minutes and the other headache item the pour just want is included in cca well not be hearing that as part of general managers report and the only items in closed session is item 16 and 7 by 7 the rest off calendar with that, commissioners you have. Excuse me. Yeah. I want clarification the cca update not the pour update is part of the not to exceed. Im sorry not the power update but the cca update. Okay. Thank you. Any office of the city administrator other clarifications then commissioners you have copies of the april 18th additions, d