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ERICSSON IRELAND CUT 300 JOBS IN DUBLIN

Ericsson Ireland announced that it will be cutting 300 jobs at its R&D facility in Clonskeagh in Dublin. These jobs will be phased out over the next 18 months. Ericsson employs 1700 staff in Ireland across a number of sites – Athlone, Dun Laoghaire and Clonskeagh.

The company had announced 5000 job cuts worldwide but most had hoped Ireland would escape. The company employs 80,000 across 175 countries so the cuts represent 5% of the workforce.

Ericsson Ireland has had business operations in Ireland since 1957 so it is well established here. This is a major blow as these are exactly the type of jobs we want to attract and keep in Ireland. Union official Peter Glynn said: “These are high value added jobs with a highly productive, highly skilled graduate workforce and that makes the news that the company intends outsourcing to either China or Hungary all the more worrying”.

Celestica Ireland employs 380 at its manufacturing plant in Galway. Celectica is a canadian electronics firm which previously had operations in Dublin. Over the last week working hours have been cut for workers in the plant however a general meeting is due to take place to dicuss the future of the plant. Celestica has been struggling with the economic climate and recently closed a plant in the US with the loss of over 500 jobs.

Vodafone Ireland announced last week that it was to cut 10 percent of its workforce. The mobile telecoms operator is looking to cut 150 jobs through redundancy from its 1,500 employees. This company hopes to achieve the redundancy figures through a voluntary redundancy programme. Vodafone are now entering a month long consultation period so there are very few details about which functions will suffer from the redundancies. The mobile company has 2.23 million subscribers to the network in Ireland.

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Terrible news on the jobs front yesterday as 270 staff lost their jobs a few weeks before Christmas. There were 3 counties affected with 110 jobs lost in Galway, 70 jobs lost in Kilkenny and 90 jobs lost in Limerick.

110 jobs lost at Thermo King in Galway

Galway suffered the biggest job losses on the day with 110 going at Thermo King Refrigeration. The company based in Mervue produced equipment for the European transport sector. The company employed 600 staff in Galway.

70 jobs lost at NN Euroball in Kilkenny.

NN Euroball announced it would close operations yesterday. The American company based in the IDA Industrial Estate at Purcellsinch produced high precision metal bearing components for the car industry.

90 jobs lost in Limerick with Filtertek & Brothers of Charity

Filtertek announced that it would be laying of 59 of its 99 staff at Newcastle West. Economic conditions were again cited as the key reason. In Limerick city the Brothers of Charity announced that shortfall in funding will result in 30 people losing their jobs.

The papers have been focusing on global financial jobs loss over the last few days with thousands more jobs lost as a result of financial sector meltdown. Back home there was also more negative job news

Hewlett Packard announced that it wants to cut 24,000 jobs globally which has increased uncertainty with its 4,000 employees in Ireland. HP employs 4,000 staff in Belfast, Dublin, Galway and Leixlip. The global job cuts will represent a 7.5% of its 178,000 global workforce. It is expected that most of these job cuts will come from EDS a recent acquisition. EDS employs 400 staff in Dublin.

250 jobs will go in Waterford with the news that buy-out talks for poultry firm Cappoquin have collapsed. This is a huge blow for the poultry industry in Ireland with the direct job loss and indirect impact on 50 producers for the firm in Munster.

Finally Tourmakeady in Co. Mayo had some bad jobs news when local firm Caideil MP Teoranta announced that it would be closing with the loss of 32 jobs.

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