More Jobs hang in the Balance

[HanleyS]

Motorola has announced that 350 jobs are under threat in Cork.

Last week Abbott announced that it was selling it's plants in Longford and Sligo to GE. GE have said that the jobs are safe but

the company will assess the role of both outlets when the sale is concluded in the next few months.

Source: Ocean FM

Pfizer's 2,000 employees are currently awaiting the results of a review of that companies operations in Ireland. Pfizer is reducing it's worldwide headcount of 100,000 by 10% (or 10,000) jobs. Ireland is not expected to escape the brunt of the cost-cutting.

FCI Ireland announced this week that they were closing down their operation in Fermoy with the loss of 240 jobs.

Ire-Tex announced this week 250 job losses at their premises in Kildare, Meath and Limerick.

On the 17th of January the irish Independent quoted informed sources saying Intel would announce 100 job losses at their Leixlip plant at the end of March.

There were 450 redundancies a week last year in Ireland. So you could say that the above losses are consistent with natural shrinkage and that new jobs will come available to replace them.

The worrying thing is though. Motorola, Pfizer, Intel and to a certain extent Abbott are traditionally seen as Blue-Chip jobs. Is ireland becoming too expensive for these comapnies?

[Sidewinder]

You can add Coca-Cola, Xerox, HP, APC, Dell and Vodafone to the list of companies where there are rumours of impending job cuts on a significant scale.

But don't worry! Everything is fine! Only FF/PD can manage the economy! House prices only go up!

[HanleyS]

You can add Coca-Cola, Xerox, HP, APC, Dell and Vodafone to the list of companies where there are rumours of impending job cuts on a significant scale.

But don't worry! Everything is fine! Only FF/PD can manage the economy! House prices only go up!

1,000 jobs at risk at Xerox in Blanchardstown. Creative shed 90 jobs before christmas. Both on Unison.ie 02.01.2007.

APC shed people last year in Galway.

Vodafone, Dell and Coca-Cola have not announced anything as far as I know.

[Sidewinder]

APC shed people last year in Galway.

Vodafone, Dell and Coca-Cola have not announced anything as far as I know.

Everyone expects APC to close entirely sometime soon. There's still 300-odd people up there. Significant enough in a town the size of Galway. The Dell, HP, Vodafone and Coke things are, so far, just at the stage of rumour. But persistent rumours over the last 6 months that won't go away. Anecdotally, Intel stopped buying new equipment and have been winding down maintenance contracts on existing equipment for 18 months now.

Our costs are just waaaay too high. Give any of them an excuse and they'll all be out of here.

[Pax]

I think Dell is likely to move production to Poland.

http://www.rte.ie/business/2006/0918/dell.html

As regards our costs, Intel stopped plans to increase production in California after the increased costs due to electricity deregulation...