{"id":9326,"date":"2009-01-08T10:25:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9326"},"modified":"2009-01-08T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"dell-transferring-1900-jobs-from-ireland-to-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9326","title":{"rendered":"Dell Transferring 1900 Jobs From Ireland To Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve talked about this before<\/a> on my blog.\u00a0 In fact, I’ve been telling people this would happen since 2001 when I learned about Dell recruiting for staff to work in a new huge plant in eastern Europe.\u00a0 Last year we heard rumours about Dell trying to sell their Limerick manufacturing plant.\u00a0 And in the last few weeks we heard Dell corporate was having meetings about the subject of laying off 2000 Irish employees.\u00a0 Of course, we had all the usual nice reaffirming promises from the government.<\/p>\n

This morning, Dell Limerick called their staff to meetings.\u00a0 In the last few minutes we heard<\/a> that 1900 staff are being laid off.\u00a0 Their jobs are being transferred to a plant in Lodz, Poland.\u00a0 The transition will run between April and November of this year.\u00a0 Dell said in a statement:<\/p>\n

"Dell will migrate all production of computer systems for customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) from Limerick to its Polish facility and third-party manufacturing partners over the next year.<\/p>\n

Dell\u2019s employees in Limerick will continue to coordinate EMEA manufacturing, logistics and supply chain activities across a range of functions including product development, engineering, procurement and logistics.\u00a0 The company\u2019s Global Innovation Solutions Centre and EMEA Command Centre will remain in Limerick. Dell continues its significant sales, marketing and support activities in Cherrywood, Dublin".<\/p>\n

On the news yesterday we heard that in Limerick and the area, 15 people’s jobs rely on each job in Dell.\u00a0 That’s a 1-15 impact.\u00a0 1900 people just lost their jobs.\u00a0 That’s 28,500 who will be affected if you believe that ratio.<\/p>\n

I honestly don’t blame Dell or Poland for this.\u00a0 I would safely bet that a huge percentage of their staff in Ireland are actually Polish.\u00a0 Why hire Polish people in Ireland when you can hire them in Poland?\u00a0 You pay them less, they have a relatively better standard of living and they’re happier being with friends and family.\u00a0 Also, it’s easier and cheaper to ship packages across continental Europe from Poland via road\/train than it is via lorry\/ferry\/lorry from Ireland.<\/p>\n

Who do I blame?\u00a0 Our government.\u00a0 The cost of living in Ireland rocketed out of control over the last 12 years.\u00a0 This has been driven by taxation, bending to the will of the construction\/finance industries and costs associated with booming levels of wasteful administration and projects in the civil and public services, for example:<\/p>\n