{"id":581,"date":"2013-01-05T19:11:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T19:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/job-losses-a-dreadful-way-to-start-the-new-year-crowe\/"},"modified":"2013-01-05T19:11:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T19:11:14","slug":"job-losses-a-dreadful-way-to-start-the-new-year-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/job-losses-a-dreadful-way-to-start-the-new-year-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Job losses a dreadful way to start the New Year- Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Job losses a dreadful way to start the New Year- Crowe<\/p>\n<p>Dublin South West TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, has expressed his dismay over the loss of 83 jobs in Johnson Brothers in Ballymount.<\/p>\n<p>Management  in the firm called employees to a meeting this afternoon to inform them  of a \u201csignificant development within the company\u201d with new arrangements  necessitating the loss of 83 jobs in its warehouse and transport  operations. It is now proposed to outsource this work to an external  company. Other operations in the company which employ 200 staff are not  affected by today\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe TD said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese job losses and the scale of them are a dreadful way to start the New Year for all those workers their families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese  particular jobs rationalisation process seems to be due to a reduction  in the volume of goods transported by the company, and reflects on the  poor state of our domestic economy. While the haulage industry will  receive a rebate on diesel from 1 July 2013 under Budget 2013, this  particular measure seems to have come too late for many of the workers  in Johnston Brothers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThankfully 200 staff will be retained by the company, but the  loss of 83 jobs is a significant amount, especially in Dublin South West  which is an area experiencing high unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe  Government continue to spin that the worst is over and the economy is  recovering but there is little sign of that in Dublin South West or in  the wider domestic economy, which is continuing to shrink rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Government needs to invest in stimulus packages which will not only save jobs but also the conditions to create them.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo ajU\">\n<div id=\":1pr\" class=\"ajR\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ajT\" src=\"http:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/images\/cleardot.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Job losses a dreadful way to start the New Year- Crowe Dublin South West TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, has expressed his dismay over the loss of 83 jobs in Johnson Brothers in Ballymount. Management in the firm called employees to a meeting this afternoon to inform them of a \u201csignificant development within the company\u201d with new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","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=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}