A TOTAL of 900 jobs are to be axed at Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port plant, the car maker has confirmed. The company said the move reflected the 'ongoing pressure' in the car industry to increase productivity and reduce costs. Vauxhall chairman Jonathan Browning said the aim was to achieve the job losses through voluntary redundancies. However, he couldn't guarantee the General Motors-owned plant would not be axed completely. He explained it was picked for the cull because it had the highest costs of any GM plant in Europe.