Airbus confirms 10,000 European job cuts

Airbus today confirmed that it plans to shed about 10,000 European jobs as part of a long-awaited restructuring plan, union officials said.

The European planemaker briefed unions on plans to sell part or all of its Meaulte and Saint-Nazaire-Ville sites in France as well as Germany’s Nordenham and Varel facilities and Filton in the UK, France’s Force Ouvriere and CGT unions both said.