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hotrodlincoln
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 Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:22 pm Post subject: Dell plans to cut jobs overseas |
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Paring of work force in Africa, Europe, Middle East is part of previously announced cuts.
STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Dell Inc. told employees in Europe, the Middle East and Africa that it plans to cut between 4 percent and 5 percent of its regional work force by the end of the year.
Executives in the broad region told employees the cuts would come as part of Dell's plans to eliminate at least 8,800 jobs worldwide, spokesman Jess Blackburn said. The computer maker employs about 17,500 workers throughout the area, meaning the cuts could affect as many as 875 jobs.
To date, the large majority of Dell's layoffs have come at its North American operations. Over the past year, it has said it will close four call centers and its desktop computer factory in North Austin. The shutdowns will eliminate more than 4,100 U.S. and Canadian jobs by the end of the year.
Although many of the specifics on the European regional layoffs were not available late Tuesday, The Associated Press and several Irish newspapers reported that Dell will lay off 250 workers in Ireland. Local economists said the decision reflected the rising expense of doing business in that country.
The approximately 4,500 employees at Dell's two locations in Ireland were told of the layoffs when they arrived for work. The cuts are expected to begin in July.
Dell is Ireland's largest exporter and its biggest technology company. Since arriving in Ireland in 1990, the company has developed its biggest European computer-assembly plant in the western city of Limerick and based its European sales and support base in the Dublin suburb of Clondalkin.
Most of the job cuts are expected to affect the Clondalkin facility, which includes sales and marketing staff, technical support and other administrative workers. Dell already has shifted most of its Irish-based telephone support staff to locations ranging from Scotland to India.
Politicians and economists said the Dell cutbacks demonstrate how Ireland — long a favorite location for U.S. corporate investment in the European Union — had grown too expensive. And several Irish analysts have worried that the opening of Dell's factory in Lodz, Poland, could signal cuts at the company's Limerick plant. Dell has made no indication that it intends to reduce capacity there.
Edward Walsh, president emeritus of the University of Limerick, which has a strategic partnership with Dell, said the rise in wages and energy costs in Ireland in the past decade is exacerbated by the U.S. dollar's decline against the euro.
"In the past when multinationals consolidated and cut jobs, Ireland was more or less immune from this activity, but because our competitiveness has dropped, we are vulnerable as never before," Walsh said.
He described the Dell move as "a shot across the bow" that should spur labor unions to accept either a pay freeze or only limited raises nationally. Negotiations on a new national wage pact opened last week. Ireland's unions are seeking raises greater than the country's 5 percent inflation rate.
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http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business/stories/technology/04/30/0430dell.html
Once again you hear the familiar whine that "unions should cut their wage demands" while, once again, you don't hear a peep about Mikey or upper management cutting even one measly dollar from their bloated salaries and bonus plans. |
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Rocke_T_Sinetist
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They're cutting AFRICA? How expensive can Africa be? Where do you go to get cheaper labor than Africa? Haiti? 
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FallenAngel
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Philippines apparently.
So this is Dell trying to bully the market, is that it? Lower your demands or else? Or else we'll just close and move?
Yeah, those bridges burned will come back to haunt them for sure. Idiots. |
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suspiciousfish
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Ofc they are cutting jobs in Ireland. FFS, we are one of their most expensive operations. And now with the annoucement of cutting back the production of their XPS desktops, how much longer can the Limerick factory expect to be running?
Even today all desktop lines are shut down for lack of work and only the notebook lines are working. And clearly the Polish factory will be able to take the load off of the Irish one, once it is up and running to its full capacity. Why continue to pay the Irish when they can pay the Polish workers in one month what they pay us each week?
They keep trying to blow smoke up everyone's ass about not leaving here, but with 3 BILLION $$ in cuts and the move to the any-to-any business plan...how much longer will this facade continue? |
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| suspiciousfish wrote: | Ofc they are cutting jobs in Ireland. FFS, we are one of their most expensive operations. And now with the annoucement of cutting back the production of their XPS desktops, how much longer can the Limerick factory expect to be running?
Even today all desktop lines are shut down for lack of work and only the notebook lines are working. And clearly the Polish factory will be able to take the load off of the Irish one, once it is up and running to its full capacity. Why continue to pay the Irish when they can pay the Polish workers in one month what they pay us each week?
They keep trying to blow smoke up everyone's ass about not leaving here, but with 3 BILLION $$ in cuts and the move to the any-to-any business plan...how much longer will this facade continue? |
The item to really consider about the fantastic Limerick Ops is when will the government there stop providing tax breaks for Dell. That is the cut off point of operations. It is a proven fact over and over again with companies around the world.
Man I miss visiting that factory and people......
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