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Updated 21:57
LUFTHANSA TECHNIK AIRMOTIVE Ireland (LTAI) today announced it is to start a process “to consider closing the company”.
The firm has a jet engine overhaul facility at Rathcoole in Dublin which employs 400 people. Today Lufthansa said it will consult with employee representatives and begin immediate negotiations with trade unions.
This decision follows an “extensive review of operations”, the company said, in the context of “declining revenues and shrinking international market opportunities”.
Commenting on the announcement, Managing Director of LTAI Wolfgang Mörig praised the workforce for their contributions over the years and expressed “regret” that the company is now at this point.
He noted “the increased quality and efficiency of the new generations of aircraft engines, with reduced need for overhaul”.
Stunned
Workers were informed of the company’s decision today and UNITE regional officer Willie Quigley told TheJournal.ie that “you could hear a pin drop”.
“The workers were stunned,” he said. “No one anywhere envisaged anything like this. Work was very scarce in the plant for a couple of weeks but this has happened before and changes have been asked for and conceded by workers.”
I’m sure there was absolute horror and devastation in the families when they heard. A lot of them have young kids and kids in college and Christmas is just five or six weeks away.
The union represents more than 200 of the workers in the plant and Quigley said representatives will be looking at “every potential alternative” to closure.
Redundancy
“If all that fails, we’ve no other choice than to get the best possible redundancy deal and secure pensions, but right now we’ll be trying to get the company to look at alternatives to keep it as it is, even with reduced numbers,” he said.
A council with representatives of all three unions involved will hold a meeting on Monday morning and they will then meet with management in the afternoon to start negotiations.
Lufthansa Technik took a 60 per cent shareholding of Airmotive Ireland, which was set up by Airlingus, in 1997. It took full ownership in 1999.
First published 15:35
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Sad we have lost him – regardless if self inflicted or natural medical problem-He will be missed ;-(
And why are people so eager to find out…should be just in his family’s interest in knowing. …
Won’t make any difference now anyway sadly.
I’d call him a hero before I’d call him a heroin
Prince was a Jehovah’s Witness.
He had been badly in need of a double hip replacement but it was against his beliefs to have a blood transfusion.
Makes no difference now in any case as his soul will be winging its way back to the Creator.
RIP.
What sort of shite are you spouting Cal?
This morbid fascination with how he died is creepy to say the least.
Some ” theories” being put forward demonstrate how the Internet seems to bring out the darkness in certain people. Let get guy rest in peace and be thankful for his music.
He was a very well known public figure,an icon for many people,legions of fans across the planet.He lived his live to a fair degree in the public eye,people being curious or wanting to know how he met his end is not morbid fascination,creepy or dark…exaggerate much?
Does it matter how he died may he r.I.p his music will live on
We’ll finally know if he really did have those ribs removed
It doesn’t matter how he died, he was a genious and I’m glad to say I saw him perform in Malahide, r.I.p Prince, oiche maith
Genius
I like that he talked about geoengineering in a interview before his death
A sobering reminder that unfortunately, our favourite celebrities (and musical geniuses) often talk a lot of b*llocks.
Also, it wasn’t his last interview. But I guess that bit made it seem a bit more spooky.
Geoengineering and GMOs are worth talking about…just because you trust the mad men who run the planet…not everyone is quite so naive…
The science is clear on GMOs, unless you’re just talking about risk of ecosystem takeover, which is a useful conversation to have.
Geoengineering, i.e. chemtrails, is a load of nonsense that has never, ever been substantiated.
Overdose
Evidence ?
Apparently he overdosed on painkillers last week and was revived. He really needed surgery but as one poster said earlier he wouldn’t go through with it for religious reasons. I suppose we will have to wait for the coroners results..in the meantime its probably better to sit back and listen to some of the brilliant music he made. And remember he was musical genius.
Every single news outlet in the world has been reporting in since this afternoon and the pm results are obviously waiting for toxicology results. So it’s so obviously an overdose.
Sorry if everyone is so offended by that but honestly can’t understand why they are!
Like I said it was reported he overdosed on painkillers last week..but sure you seem to know more. We wiĺl wait for toxicology results so..now maybe you might wait as well.
Wow!!! You know before the medical examiners complete the post-mortem. Quick!! Get on Sky and tell them u know more than anyone else. Ye dope!!!!
Macooper, not obviously an overdose. Not obviously anything yet just pure speculation. I don’t think people would be offended if it were an overdose its more the complete spoofery of people who think before the results are in that is bothering people.
What is that all about?!
Heroin
Kill your idol or your idol will kill you .
Loada w@nkbots invading
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