Report: Dell to close Limerick plant in 2009

It is 10,000 people - although not all working in Dell - so so many factories work for them and are directly affected by Dell.. it is massive blow to area but as usual Limerick will be over looked and forgotten..

its not 10 000 workers its around 2500-3000 that dell employes not all forigners will go back home os maybe the housing market wont collapse but ofcourse this clousure isnt for the best anyway :( WHAT CAN WE DO IST A GLOBAL CRISIS WE ARENT THE ONLY ONES IT CANT BE ALWAYS GOOD LOOK AT THE HISTORY !!!

Dell Leaves, 10,000 jobs gone. Most of the foreign workers return to their native lands, Irish join the dole queues...

Housing market collapses even further. Rent prices plummit. Alot of people with mortagages are very nervous.

Anyone with a job in 2009 can count themselves lucky. Its gonna be touch but we will come through it

So the chickens have come home to roost....Good BYE "Norma"
DELL and many more coming down the pike when President
ELECT obama takes office. Throughout his campaign he
promised the masses his first order of the day was the US
economy - by doing so, second order of the day was to
offer huge incentives to Multinationals overseas to come back
to the US shores with their lucrative jobs in tow. Timing for same
couldn't be better since the Irish Times just reported said
US companies are most unhappy in Ireland due to high cost
of doing business there and their horrendous infrastructure
and if they had it all to do over again they would NOT have
set up shop in Ireland.... are said companies sending a coded message
to President Elect obama 'to come get us"....ME thinks so.

Dell goes - Limerick is Dead!!!

Emm I think everyone with their bright ideas are forgetting . . if Dell is pulling out its because the market isnt doing well anymore! that means that we CANT just go it alone and make computers ourselves!!

even if dell had very little profit, they would still stay but theyre obviously making loses by doing business in this expensive, overpriced country.

I say expand the northern borders and make everything british so it is cheaper and we get free healthcare with cheaper booze!!

the problem with dell is going to be huge it will almost certainly destroy the limerick economy and surrounding economys.......
willy o dea knows exactly wats going on and needs to pull his finger out and tell the dell employees whats going to happen WHEN DELL CLOSES...

FAS = Farce. A workers co-op with fas involved? theres a concept, we'd have a every dole scrounger and job dodger in the town being sent out there to soak up what left of the tax payers money, and yes all under the 'guise' of job training. As with most other fas managed efforts, anyone nieave enuf to hope for anything more will be gretly dissapointed.

@ Countrygirl

I think the problem is that it's not possible to do it competitively on a large scale it would need to be done on a massive scale. That been said, you may be hitting on something. If the facility was purchased by Fas and subsidised by the government so that it had some sort of a saftey net whereby profits were not a priorty then they could manufacture for any and every computer manufacturer, not just exclusively for one. And at the same time provide a training ground for Fas candidates to train them to be part of the work force. i.e train them to be management, cooks, electricians, technicians etc... This could all be done under the guise of on the job training.
Damn I think I just came up with a good idea there :-)

People have touched on something that could be a solution. A skilled workforce exists also the factory and the wherewithall to start where Dell left off. Why not ? Get the grants everything is on hand in Limerick.
An indigenous industral base is whats needed we don't need to be held over a barrell by foreign multinationals. Profit margins may not be as large but at least there would be employment.

what's really to the point is that Dell wages are only about half the average industrial wage in Ireland...all these slaves are giving more than they are getting.
But China can get away with wages of 50 cents an hour for the same effort(Irish minimum wage is e8.65 an hour..more than 17 times the Chinese hourly rate).
do you know anybody that will accept the Irish minimum wage in Ireland except as a last resort

Even if the report is false. Dell will probably be closing up shop because of their change in strategy. The building of computers is not as lucrative as it once was. It was great in the early days of dell when they were pretty much the pioneers of the build to order system and coupled with their just in time inventory practices made them very profitable.
But now every Tom Dick and harry can build their own computer and couple that with the explosion of the globa trading practices. Its easy to go on the internet and find the components to build a computer at very competitive prices.
Does anyone remember when Wang were the leaders of servers and masive computers that would take up a whole room. They didn't adopt to the changing market and went belly up.
What we are seeing here is that Dell are attempting to adjust to the current market in an effort to not follow in Wang's footsteps.

What the Irish govt needs to do now is to try to attract research and development companies to ireland. Anyone can screw in a motherboard but we have one of the most educated workforces in the world and it's time that the govt tried to attract companies to harness the brainpower of the irish work force.. That is something that could never be shipped overseas.

most go down to usit and get the tickets sydney be the job for christmas

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bye bye bye dellilah why why why dellilah

I think the paper says that O'dea and power have never actually denied the rumours - they keep saying they hope they will be staying. I think its obvious to anyone reading the governments statements on this that they all know its coming cause no one has actually denied it. Its not Willy and Peter Powers fault in fairness......what could they do to make them stay? lower the mnimum wage is it???? I dont think so...thats the only reason these companies are folding......our wages are too high....

Dell really need to come out and make a statment to their staff, they owe them that, sitting on the fence and saying nothing is really sayin yes its going to happen......

Actually it will be 10,002 people unemployed as a result. O'Dea and Power will be joining the back of the dole queue come the next election.

I heard that the factory is closing but aren't there about 1000 or so jobs that are involved in the other non factory buliding?.

Some of the early reports maintained that these staff would stay.

This would be total chaos for limerick about 1/10th of limerick people work for DELL roughly. The people are already trained in building computers why dose'nt an Irish company take over and build Irish Pcs getting parts from asia.It would be like ryanair of the computer industry we should stop depending on the americans for every little thing and go off on our own.

my 3rd attempt at posting this...

dell is gone, o'dee etc are lying thru their teeth, moustaches etc. Theyd have left already but for the fact theyd have to pay the i.d.a back a bunch of grants and fines for breech of contract ect.
Say bye bye dell, hello the 80's again, only this time we'l know what we're missin.

it ill be an almighty scramble for jobs when this happens,we"l all be claiming or tax back on the dole

The writing has been on the wall for some time now especially when they started building that new plant in eastern europe ... thats up for sale too apparently... What would the employee's think of a workers co-op ? They know how to build computers .. Dell is just a badge, its a idea.

If Dell Goes in one big shutdown.......then it can only be classed as a meltdown situation for the midwest..............MELTDOWN.

The mail on Sunday must have logged on to this site recently!

Fucking Hell!!
10,000 jobs thats catastrophic!!

Bang