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Possible job losses at Honeywell Measurex

  • 12-01-2012 4:42pm
    #1
    Heathen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭


    http://www.wlrfm.com/news-and-sport/waterford-news/139979.html

    There are unconfirmed reports that Waterford is losing more jobs to a cheaper location32 jobs are believedd to be going at the Safety Management System section of Honeywell Measurex on the IDA industrial estate in the city.It's understood the jobs are moving to Bulgaria.Staff were informed of the redundancies at meeting this afternoon, the job losses represent almost half of the staff working at Honeywell Measurex.Honeywell Measurex is one of three factories operating under the Honeywell name in Waterford, the other two are unaffected.


    :(


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  • #2
    Heathen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭Heathen


    Also approx 30 job losses announced in Sun Life on the IDA this week too!!

    :(


  • #3
    Nypd
    Registered Users Posts: 781 ✭✭✭Nypd


    Heathen wrote: »
    http://www.wlrfm.com/news-and-sport/waterford-news/139979.html

    There are unconfirmed reports that Waterford is losing more jobs to a cheaper location32 jobs are believedd to be going at the Safety Management System section of Honeywell Measurex on the IDA industrial estate in the city.It's understood the jobs are moving to Bulgaria.Staff were informed of the redundancies at meeting this afternoon, the job losses represent almost half of the staff working at Honeywell Measurex.Honeywell Measurex is one of three factories operating under the Honeywell name in Waterford, the other two are unaffected.


    :(

    Wtf are our elected representives doing beside picking up a fat monthly cheque.


  • #4
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Nypd wrote: »
    Wtf are our elected representives doing beside picking up a fat monthly cheque.

    Hasn't Honeywell being leaving for a while now? Also our representives can not force a company to stay here.


  • #5
    Speak Now
    Registered Users Posts: 8,504 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    Sully wrote: »
    Hasn't Honeywell being leaving for a while now? Also our representives can not force a company to stay here.

    True, 130,000 employeed worldwide and guess where the highest labour rates are......


  • #6
    dark_shadow
    Registered Users Posts: 389 ✭✭dark_shadow


    Very very sad news again for waterford:( we must be one of the hardest hit counties in Ireland with regard to job losses.


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  • #7
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    dark_shadow wrote: »
    Very very sad news again for waterford:( we must be one of the hardest hit counties in Ireland with regard to job losses.

    A bit unlucky id say. Ulster Bank job losses might hit Waterford also.


  • #8
    dark_shadow
    Registered Users Posts: 389 ✭✭dark_shadow


    Sully wrote: »
    A bit unlucky id say. Ulster Bank job losses might hit Waterford also.

    Jaysus yeah there leaving 600 go aswell in Rep of Ireland!! Needless to say then Waterford will take another big hit! :mad:


  • #9
    wellboy76
    Registered Users Posts: 691 ✭✭✭wellboy76


    The Honeywell losses will be glossed over on the news by the ulster bank story


  • #10
    Psychedelic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭Psychedelic


    Heathen wrote: »
    Also approx 30 job losses announced in Sun Life on the IDA this week too!!

    :(
    Anything to back that up? They were recruiting jobs only a couple of months ago.


  • #11
    Heathen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭Heathen


    Psychedelic wrote: »
    Anything to back that up? They were recruiting jobs only a couple of months ago.

    I know most of the people that were told they are gone...

    They were told on Monday

    H


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  • #12
    SillyMcCarthy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 372 ✭✭SillyMcCarthy


    Just reading it on the RTE website. They are going to Bulgaria!
    More job losses at Ulster Bank & Diageo in Kilkenny & Dundalk.
    Who said we had turned the corner? :eek:


  • #13
    dayshah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,542 ✭✭✭dayshah


    Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »
    True, 130,000 employeed worldwide and guess where the highest labour rates are......

    Belgium


  • #14
    leduke
    Registered Users Posts: 138 ✭✭leduke


    which one of the honeywell factories does this affect?


  • #15
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    The small one near the Cork road entrances I think.


  • #16
    Finnbar01
    Registered Users Posts: 2,064 ✭✭✭Finnbar01


    Heathen wrote: »
    I know most of the people that were told they are gone...

    They were told on Monday

    H

    Do you know what department in Sunlife is going? I thought they were doing very well.
    Very very sad news again for waterfordfrown.gif we must be one of the hardest hit counties in Ireland with regard to job losses.

    AFAIK, Waterford or at least the South East region, has the highest unemployment rate in Ireland.


  • #17
    ex_infantry man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭ex_infantry man


    Finnbar01 wrote: »
    Do you know what department in Sunlife is going? I thought they were doing very well.



    AFAIK, Waterford or at least the South East region, has the highest unemployment rate in Ireland.
    think its just voluntary redundancies as one of my friends took her redundancy and is goin for an interview for job in dublin next week


  • #18
    deise blue
    Registered Users Posts: 666 ✭✭✭deise blue


    dayshah wrote: »
    Belgium

    You are of course right.

    According to Forfas in 2009 Ireland were ranked 10th of the OECD 28 in terms of Labour Costs & I would imagine that we have fallen below that ranking during the intervening years .


  • #19
    Dilbert75
    Registered Users Posts: 4,724 ✭✭✭Dilbert75


    leduke wrote: »
    which one of the honeywell factories does this affect?

    The one opposite the old Aventis factory - its between the other two. Really sad to hear this - I was involved in transferring those products from Holland to Ireland about 8 years ago. That happened after other business had been lost from the site. Hopefully the same thing will happen again and Honeywell will transfer something else in.


  • #20
    Irishder
    Registered Users Posts: 926 ✭✭✭Irishder


    Just seen that the old Honeywell Measurex site is getting refitted out, anyone got an idea as to what is going in there? I know Shivo were in there but as far as i know they are gone.


  • #21
    Max Powers
    Registered Users Posts: 3,510 ✭✭✭Max Powers


    Irishder wrote: »
    Just seen that the old Honeywell Measurex site is getting refitted out, anyone got an idea as to what is going in there? I know Shivo were in there but as far as i know they are gone.

    Christ irishder, don't be resurrecting old headlines like that, hopefully something positive going on there.


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  • #22
    azimuth17
    Registered Users Posts: 894 ✭✭✭azimuth17


    This thread should be renamed or withdrawn and I would ask the admin/moderator to do so. It has nothing whatever to do with Honeywell or Measurex and is deeply misleading on that basis. Absolutely the wrong thing to do in the light of major new investment in that unit.


  • #23
    Irishder
    Registered Users Posts: 926 ✭✭✭Irishder


    Do you know who is investing in it


  • #24
    Royal Legend
    Registered Users Posts: 2,654 ✭✭✭Royal Legend


    Irishder wrote: »
    Do you know who is investing in it

    Schivo was sold to a company from the Whest, former owner/Director of Schivo owns the ex-measurex plant, has setup business "hot spots" as far as I know, plus a food court of some description


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