Full-time jobs joy for 100 Laird apprentices.MORE than 100 of the Cammell Laird For the football team see Cammell Laird FC. Cammell Laird, one of the most famous names in British shipbuilding during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, came about following the merger of Laird, Son & Co. of Birkenhead and Johnson Cammell & Co. apprentices left jobless job·less adj. 1. Having no job. 2. Of or relating to those who have no jobs. n. (used with a pl. verb) Unemployed people considered as a group. Used with the. after the collapse of the Birkenhead Birkenhead, city (1991 pop. 99,075) and port, Wirral metropolitan borough, W central England, at the mouth of the Mersey River; connected with Liverpool by the Mersey tunnel. Birkenhead has extensive docks. There are engineering, food-processing and clothing plants. shipyard are now in full-time employment. A total of 119 have jobs in a variety of industries in this country and abroad, but only 10% are in shipbuilding. Jim Teasdale, chief executive of the Laird laird n. Scots The owner of a landed estate. [Scots, from Middle English lard, variant of lord, owner, master; see lord. Foundation in Birkenhead, set up to provide education and training programmes, said he was pleased so many had been able to find jobs. But he added: "It is disappointing that more have not been able to go into shipbuilding, but the demand just isn't there." The Laird Foundation has also revealed expansion plans, including the development of an Open Learning Centre, together with teaching and conference facilities. |
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