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Number of Aberdonians affected by unemployment up 60% in just one month by James Wyllie May 22, 2020, 7:47 am

Number of Aberdonians affected by unemployment up 60% in just one month
by James Wyllie
May 22, 2020, 7:47 am
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The number of people seeking help for unemployment in Aberdeen has risen by nearly two-thirds in just one month.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics show 6,710 people in the city applied for Universal Credit or Jobseekers’ Allowance in April.

This marked 2,545 more people than in March – an increase of 61% and representative of an additional 1.6% of the city’s residents.

The coronavirus pandemic has placed increased support on businesses across the country, with its impact on oil prices compounding its effects on the Aberdeen energy industry.

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So 30 to 50 thousand now out of work
Baker posted millions in the red and getting worse.
Unemployment already up 60%
House prices already down 8% in 3 months , 28% on 5 years ago.
Over 3000 propertys for sale and hundreds more going on after this viris.
Rental market back to 1990 prices with up 12 months rent time if at all.
Almost all north sea work postponed or cancelled for 2 years.
Decom work on hold 3 to 6 years.
Hotels , restaurants, bars , shops and c-sinos closing at a rate 5 times of any other UK city but your still trying say Aberdeen and Baker are doing well , and you wonder why people laugh now at our company.?

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Post ID: @2yai+155X37j0

Clown was fired

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Post ID: @2xdf+155X37j0

Lesson lernd is dinnae put incompetent mwdoperators in management job. big f-up by stoneywoods

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Post ID: @1fjz+155X37j0

What a load of codswallop about Aberdeen

Best city in U.K.

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Post ID: @1gjj+155X37j0

Aberdeen office had bp contract for over 40 yrs and stoneywood management managed to fxxx it up and lose it. What a train wreck

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Post ID: @1dna+155X37j0

Yeo going back to work offshore again next week

Thank you Baker for staying focused and winning new business

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Post ID: @1vdv+155X37j0

We lost the bp work originally because the incompetence of stoneywood. canna see going back there again

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Post ID: @1kbb+155X37j0

Guess what? we are going back to work for BP and going offshore next week

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Post ID: @1fqc+155X37j0

looking back at the last oil recession mentioned here in 1989 was the year I started my first job offshore with no qualifications whatsoever but went on to make a lot of money, invested in west end property, travelled the world while getting paid a fortune and today I move between our home in Rubislaw Den and my apartment in Monaco.

Thank you Aberdeen and my advice to everybody is now is the time to find a good job. Oil price is going up again and the new cycle has started. Nowhere in the UK are there better places than Aberdeen to live, work and play.

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Post ID: @1jtm+155X37j0

Aberdeen is finished now it never recovered from the last downturn.
Anyone who was here for the 89 downturn will understand just how bad it is going to get and this is a lot worse, in 89 whole streets were up for sale for almost 50% of there value or reposed and already that's starting.
Hotels, bars , restaurants already going bankrupt .
These figures are not counting the thousands of oil workers who are on 90 days notice at the moment or furloughed.
With new numbers expected to be over 50000 just in the oil industry in Aberdeen by 4 months time.
House prices are a absolute joke falling already 8% this year and no chance of even selling with thousands up for sale and this down turn is just starting.
People are leaving by the thousands again .
90% of all companies now have reduced work to under 15% for the next 2 years.
rig count at a 40 year low and still dropping..
Even decom jobs and applications are on hold now for 3 to 6 years.

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Post ID: @1veu+155X37j0

Plenty ex-baker now unemployed struggling to get universal credit. Desperate to get back in baker aberdeen

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