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24/04/2009
Textile Jobs Losses Loom In Tralee
While staff at the German-owned Amann specialist textile plant in Tralee are expected bad news on their future employment prospects today, in Northern Ireland, 70 jobs will go today in a construction trade supplier.
Workers in Tralee are to meet with management at lunchtime as speculation mounts on the future of the operation, which employs 340 people.
It was announced in January that 120 jobs were to be transferred to other Amann group facilities in Romania and Germany.
Overall manufacturing costs as well as the ongoing recession was blamed for the cut.
Now, all employees of the plant are have been called to today's meeting, with Siptu's Con Casey said the union was "very concerned" but had not received any confirmation of lay-offs.
Amann was established in Tralee in 1998 after buying the former Klopman textile plant, in what was then a major jobs announcement.
The plant produces high quality technical sewing threads for the automotive, fashion and textile industries.
In Northern Ireland, Spanboard in Co Londonderry announced the news about today's redundancies at the plant three months ago.
Today, some 70 posts will go at the plant which has been employing 105 people.
The Coleraine firm's Portuguese owners, Sonae, blamed the job losses on the downturn in the construction industry and rising costs of raw materials.
Problems remain across Europe, with news that Spanish unemployment has soared to four million in the first quarter of 2009, almost doubling in a year.
Authorities there said that the global recession has destroyed jobs more quickly than anywhere else in Europe.
(BMcC/JM)
Workers in Tralee are to meet with management at lunchtime as speculation mounts on the future of the operation, which employs 340 people.
It was announced in January that 120 jobs were to be transferred to other Amann group facilities in Romania and Germany.
Overall manufacturing costs as well as the ongoing recession was blamed for the cut.
Now, all employees of the plant are have been called to today's meeting, with Siptu's Con Casey said the union was "very concerned" but had not received any confirmation of lay-offs.
Amann was established in Tralee in 1998 after buying the former Klopman textile plant, in what was then a major jobs announcement.
The plant produces high quality technical sewing threads for the automotive, fashion and textile industries.
In Northern Ireland, Spanboard in Co Londonderry announced the news about today's redundancies at the plant three months ago.
Today, some 70 posts will go at the plant which has been employing 105 people.
The Coleraine firm's Portuguese owners, Sonae, blamed the job losses on the downturn in the construction industry and rising costs of raw materials.
Problems remain across Europe, with news that Spanish unemployment has soared to four million in the first quarter of 2009, almost doubling in a year.
Authorities there said that the global recession has destroyed jobs more quickly than anywhere else in Europe.
(BMcC/JM)
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