Workers Rights Welcome Centre (WRWC) project manager, Rachael Ryan, said: “Our staff are committed to providing up-to-date confidential and accurate information on workplace issues to workers who visit our centres. “Centres already operate in Dublin, Tralee, Navan and Cork where Advocates and Information Assistants provide advice and representation to workers every day. In many incidences they have saved the jobs of workers or satisfactorily addressed their grievances.” She added: “Workers in the Sligo area who are suffering unfair treatment at work and who want to talk to someone face to face in a confidential and empathetic setting, will be able to drop in to the Centre, which will be open from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Workers can also ring the Centre on 071 - 9161841.” The WRWC network is complemented by the Worker Rights Centre website and a dedicated helpline number of 1890 747 881. These services are provided by the trade union SIPTU, in solidarity to all workers (members and non-members) who need them. “Many workers are employed in precarious, intolerable and inequitable situations, while others simply want to improve their pay and conditions, this makes it critically important that they organise themselves and join a union.” SIPTU Sector Organiser, John McCarrick, HR USA 1
Rumours of VOLUNTARY REDUNDANCIES have begun to circle around the Clonmel plant with people making assumptions of the very young new employees arriving into the Shithole & talk of a way out may just be on the Horizon for a workforce with which patience has run out or maybe the rumours have been created by management to try & quell UNION rumours as more & more people have had enough
Given that you have about 150 retiring in the next 5 or 6 years it makes since that they hire younger people. It's cheaper and effective for long-term strategy those holding out for a golden handshake are wasting there lives and it's sad. It won't happen not for at least 10 years and even then all they have to pay is statutory redundancy. I wouldn't waste my life working for abbott to get a poxy 20-30k at the end of it. I made a decision to leave for my own sanity. Even though the wages are not as good I'm much happier. I no longer work shift and have a job closer to home. Everyone is different but I couldn't take it anymore. I most admit tho if the increments in wages were better over the last few years or if we had a union I probably would of stayed and caused havoc.LOL. I wish the place well tho clonmel needs those jobs even though id say 50-60per cent want out everyone is replacable from top dog down to the little mutt.
Looks like Clonmel is outsourcing jobs to to Shannon. A company called DB Schenker going to supply materials to the lines. Redundancies???
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I see Joan “the fixer” Casey won the monthly draw AGAIN for the hundredth time... isn’t it obvious... nobody is that lucky!!!!!!
i work in SDS and in one way I’m lucky to have a job but I really really hate this place. Why is it so horrible ?
