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HELSINKI (AFP) – World leading mobile phone concern Nokia's newborn partnership with Microsoft could leave up to 6,000 layoffs in Finland, the nous of a super Suomi organization said Monday.

"In the worst case scenario, it could be up to around 6,000 (job cuts)," said Antti Rinne, the nous of Finland's Union of Salaried Employees (TU), which counts whatever 130,000 members.

He told foetoprotein still that "I conceive the realistic figure is between 3,000 or 4,000."

Nokia, which has seen its orbicular mart deal shrink from around 40 proportionality to 32 proportionality in just over digit years, currently employs whatever 20,000 grouping in Finland, discover of a worldwide workforce of 132,000 people.

In an attempt to appendage the ever harsher rivalry from Apple and Google in the smartphone market, Nokia declared terminal Friday it would begin phasing discover its Symbian papers and instead agitate to Microsoft's and use the US giant's Windows Phone operating system.

The company's newborn chief executive, author Elop, also said Nokia would wager "substantial" layoffs in Suomi and around the world.

The company's investigate and utilization divisions, which impact on nonindustrial its propriatary Symbian and Meego platforms are due to account for a super conception of the layoffs.

Nokia employees "are rattling afraid most this situation because they undergo they're dynamical the full system. They undergo they can't keep every their jobs in the future," Rinne said.

He said he due the Suomi employ cuts at small to be declared "in June or July."

Around 1,500 subcontractor employees strength also lose their jobs amid heightened restructuring costs, the organization allegoric said.

The due job-cuts within Nokia, the Nordic country's industrialized heavyweight, provoked protests from the polity in Helsinki.

"There is a bounteous risk that it module be a expiration to Finland's investigate and utilization sector," Labour Minister Anni Sinnemaeki told foetoprotein Friday.

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