NEWLY elected Labour MEP, Alan Kelly, has blasted computer giants Dell for their refusal to meet representatives of Limerick staff about to lose their jobs to discuss redundancy payments.
“Here we have a company with 2,000 Irish workers that helped turned them into a global leader and are not even affording them the dignity of a sit-down.
“That is disgraceful and shameful behaviour.
After working so hard for them for so many years, Dell might as well have just kicked their soon to be redundant Limerick workforce in the teeth.“When the full story emerges of Dell’s time in Limerick, it will become clear that employees of that company worked night and day and put up with some extreme working conditions all in the name of Dell computers who only turfed them out as soon as they felt they were no longer useful.
“They are not even affording them the basic respect of sitting down with them. That is a scandal.
“Let me put on the record now that it is my firm intention to campaign on behalf of the workers here in Europe.
“Dell represented the economic heartbeat of the Mid-West. If the powers that be and Dell themselves cannot assist these people in rebuilding their careers after such large-scale job losses then this recession will beat us. However I along with the Dell Workers Representative Group are determined not to let that happen”.
