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280 Jobs to Go in P&G Nenagh
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After meeting with staff this morning, it was announced by Procter and Gamble that 280 jobs are to go in a cost cutting exercise. The jobs are to be cut from skincare to a plant in Poland.
220 jobs will be kept in Nenagh on the recent lines producing high-value products for Western European markets. References in the comments suggest difficulties with the Unions in the plant have been prevalent for quite some time.
Once again the issue of competitiveness and the utter dependence of the economy on FDI come under the microscope. There is a serious issue now trundling down the tracks that unless new FDI is found, it is unlikely that local business will be capable of soaking up the unemployed workers from these plants.
Similarly the government appears to have done little to make sustainable development and competitiveness a priority, focussing on the one-dimensional aspect of taxation. For a better critique of the politics and political economy at play here read Gerry and Michael.
I’m waiting for MMartin to tell us all about the strength of the service, as if you can run an economy with everyone selling coffee to each other.
Why is it that when you say services to people they assume call centres, or “selling coffee”?
I used to work for P&G in Nenagh in the Skincare plant as an Engineer. I made the move into services 9 years ago. I have been a consultant since. These days I travel all over the world selling services. The money for that comes back to Ireland. My job is high value, and very secure because the key asset to my company is the knowledge in my head and not a machine. That makes it very hard for them to decide to move the work elsewhere. Not that they could anyway. For cultural and practical reasons my work has to be done by someone in Europe.
As it was when the announcement came that P&G’s Skincare plant was to close I was in Poland telling our organisation there how to deliver consulting into their local market.
Services are the future for the Irish economy. We cannot compete in manufacturing except in limited specialised areas.
Its a bloody joke.WE feel as P&G employees we have been left down in the gutters.Where is your good samaritan now!I work with polish people.They offered me a job when it opens over there.Bertie you dirty snake with your extra €38,000 from our pockets.You are taking the food from my my 5 year old daughters mouth.