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Posted on 09/14/2025 4:53:10 PM PDT by fluorescence
The halt to production at Jaguar Land Rover has been extended again as it grapples the impact of a cyber attack, with a trade union demanding a COVID-style furlough scheme for workers affected in the supply chain.
There have so far been 12 days of costly inactivity as attempts to recover vital systems continue.
Earlier this week, Monday had been slated as a possible day for manufacturing to restart but that has now been put back until Wednesday at least.
The disruption is not only affecting output at JLR's factories but its supply chain too, with thousands of jobs threatened.
The latest announcement means the 34,000 UK JLR workers will now remain at home until at least next week.
Staff are still being paid from JLR sites in Halewood, Merseyside, and Solihull and Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, but the entire economy around the West Midlands is affected.
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Operations could be disrupted for "most of September" or worse, according to a report from The Sunday Times.
Business and Trade Committee chair Liam Byrne wrote to Chancellor Rachel Reeves, saying: "Firms across the supply chain are now warning the committee of disruption to both upstream and downstream businesses.
"This disruption, we are told, may imminently pose very significant risks to cashflow."
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Hi tech and unions. Are they worth it?
Sounds as if in the end they will just start shooting sabotage-specialist union leaders one-by-one until the problem goes away.
If they make Jaguars I doubt anyone would notice the lost production. If it’s just Land Rover’s, it’ll mean fewer vehicles to recall.
Their “technology center” (the place where they write the code for the in-car entertainment, and all the other electronic stuff) is in Portland. I applied several times and could never so much as get a callback.
It’s starting to look like that was a blessing. Or as Garth once sang “Sometimes I thank God, for unanswered prayers”.
Welcome to the new normal. Unless these hackers are found and dealt with this kind of behavior will never stop.
It’s starting to be worth it to go back to paper.
The line workers.
The world is looking more and more like Idiocracy every day:
“The computer did that auto lay off thing and now we’re all unemployed!”
Do they still make cars?
Faguar
My family owned a couple of Jaguar cars too
Very sad to see
They are ... Legion ... 👿👿👿
Small companies I’ve worked for have fallen into the same trap, the cloud. Some of it is due to their own inability to create a resilient local network or to mix it with “the cloud”. Power blinked out at work today.
All the client PCs have UPS battery backup and so does the local network server but I guess, some breaker for that kicks when the power goes out ...? Took 3 hours for the local network to come back up, likely because it’s Sunday and took that long to get someone allowed to flip it back on to come in.
Also our 2FA system runs off “the cloud” and we need that just to log into a PC and those PCs log us out with 5 minutes of inactivity. I’m quite sure it costs them well into 5 figures to pay people to log back into a PC they were logged into several minutes ago and never walked away from.
It’s all insanely stupid.
Was this really a “cyber attack?” Or is this just cover for their use of LUCAS computers in the engineering department? s/
Can’t find enough Lucas replacement wire harness smoke to replenish the factory’s control system
By cyber attack did they make that homo queer tranny advertisement.
Actually, it's the oil leaks at the servers.
Heh, heh, somebody found a back door into their private spaces. ;-)
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