cat to cut 280 jobs in tassie.

Caterpillar sacks 280 workers

AAP

April 07, 2009 10:09am

CONSTRUCTION and mining equipment manufacturer Caterpillar will cut 280 jobs from its 700-strong Tasmanian workforce by the end of the month, a federal MP says.

Caterpillar's Tasmanian base is at Burnie, in the state's northwest, where the local federal member is Sid Sidebottom.

Mr Sidebottom said today the international machinery manufacturer, which announced in January it was cutting 20,000 people jobs worldwide, had told him of the Burnie cuts.