Sentence examples for workforce defence from inspiring English sources

With its highly experienced and skilled workforce, defence company BAE Systems in Telford, Shropshire, builds and maintains armoured vehicles.

Conveniently for the industry, an official tally is no longer kept, for the defence workforce has been shrinking for decades: from 750,000 in 1980 in the nervous final phase of the cold war, according to the Defence Manufacturers Association, to 475,000 in 1989 as the Berlin Wall came down, to 350,000 in 1997 when Blair came to power.

A spokesperson for Rolls-Royce said: "We are in consultation with trade unions over reductions in our defence workforce at Ansty.

Resistance to workforce change and defence of professional jurisdiction has been noted more generally in the organisational literature [ 36, 37], while nursing research has indicated concerns among professionals about dilution to the skills mix [ 38] and impact on quality of care [ 39] where non-professionally qualified roles have been introduced into existing teams.

The actual defence industry workforce is, maximum, 215,000, and could well be 30,000 or 40,000 less".

"It is highly inappropriate for the MoD to expect the military to fill in the gaps left by cuts to its civilian workforce," said Emily Thornberry, the shadow Defence Secretary.

Indeed, it is reported that private contractors will make up at least half of the total military workforce in Afghanistan, according to defence department officials cited in a new congressional study.

The public service or defence force employed around 20% of the workforce, somewhat less than the ACT average of 25.8.

Mr Osborne also said that the Ministry of Defence would face further cuts to its civilian workforce as its budget was maintained in cash terms at £24 billion - representing a real terms cut.

If someone stopped you in the street and asked you to name the biggest single science workforce in the country outside academia, you might guess pharmaceuticals, defence or perhaps the chemical industry.

The Ministry of Defence has pressed ahead with cuts to its workforce without understanding what skills it will need in the future, MPs say.