Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, expressed his astonishment at the job losses announced by Minister for State John Perry, who told TDs in the D\u00e1il that 107 jobs in Pratt & Whitney Aviation International (PWAI), and 408 at the Lufthansa plant in Rathcoole, County Dublin, were to go.<\/p>\n
Crowe said that workers were hoping to hear positive news from the Minister about what measures the Government were taking to secure their jobs, and they must have been devastated to hear that their jobs are now to go.<\/p>\n
Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n
\u201cI was astonished to hear Minister Perry announce these huge job losses.<\/p>\n
\u201cWorkers and their families listening to the debate had been told by management last Friday that their jobs were under threat, but this announcement from the Minister will come as a huge blow.<\/p>\n
\u201cPositive proposals when it comes to saving jobs seems to be beyond the ability of this government.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe job losses at PWAI and Lufthansa don\u2019t add up. They are both successful and profitable companies, with highly skilled and adaptable staff.<\/p>\n
\u201cManagement have told the staff that they were not at fault for the job losses or the crisis, and the sacrifices and adaptability of the staff was also commended.<\/p>\n
\u201cMinister Perry\u2019s announcement is devastating for these workers and their families, especially in the run up to what will now be a very difficult Christmas.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Minister and his Cabinet clearly have no answers, no new initiatives, and lack the ability to save these viable jobs.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a scandal that workers hopes should be destroyed by a Minister reading a script. No employee should be informed that their job is gone in this flippant and thoughtless way.<\/p>\n
\u201cMinister Perry needs to apologise to the staff in these companies, but more importantly he needs to introduce measures to save these highly skilled jobs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, expressed his astonishment at the job losses announced by Minister for State John Perry, who told TDs in the D\u00e1il that 107 jobs in Pratt & Whitney Aviation International (PWAI), and 408 at the Lufthansa plant in Rathcoole, County Dublin, were to go. Crowe said that workers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,59,23,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austerity","category-employment","category-local","category-unemployment-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}