DELL WORKERS BEFORE OIREACHTAS COMMITTEE

04 March 2010

We wish to acknowledge the help of Limerick Live95 in publicising this story.

The Dell Redundant Workers Association says entire European Globaisation Fund scheme will fail if the workers are not involved in the decision making process.
Audio Feed of The Dell Redundant Workers at The Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Trade & Employment

Submission to Select Committee on Enterprise, Trade & Employment.

SURE CREAM ALWAYS RISES TO THE TOP!
Your Association Committee met this morning The Select Committee on Enterprise, Trade & Employment. The meeting which was scheduled to last one hour but in fact lasted almost two hours. This was as a result of the very comprehensive presentation on our part and the many searching questions from members of The Select Committee.

We can be very proud of the professional and frank manner in which your Committee presented the arguments and answered the detailed questions from those present. No quarter given or asked.

Many issues were thrashed out and the Select Committe has committed itself to The Dell Redundant Workers Association into the future.

It was a masterful performance from our Team.
A TOUR DE FORCE!!!

The Dell Redundant Workers Association meet with The Oireachtas.

We wish the Dell Redundant Workers Association Committee the best of luck today. This is a very special occasion.

Today we visit The Seat of Irish Government, Leinster House in an official capacity. This was as a result of an Invitation from The Oirechtas. The Oireachtas will hear at first hand of the concerns of the Dell Redundant Workers. This in relation to the distribution of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund(EGF).

An amazing number of Redundant Workers have been kept in a state of Limbo while they deal with an increasing Bureacracy. Is is a case of Parkinson's Law?

Anyhow today is a very special day and we would like to keep focuss on THE POSITIVE!!!

BEST OF LUCH TO DENIS RYAN AND HIS "BAND OF BROTHERS".

Dell Redundant Workers Association and Equal Rights 4 Non-Union Workers to appear before the Enterprise Committee

OIREACHTAS PRESS RELEASE

Dell Redundant Workers Association and Equal Rights 4 Non-Union Workers to appear before the Enterprise Committee

Representatives from the Dell Redundant Workers Association and Equal Rights 4 Non-Union Workers will appear before Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment tomorrow, Thursday March 4th, to discuss the European globalisation fund.

Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Willie Penrose, TD, said: “The current European Global Fund has been in place since 2007 to assist workers made redundant because of globalisation of trade and its impacts on market share patterns within the EU.

“A total of €23 million has been approved from the fund for workers laid off when Dell closed its manufacturing operation in Limerick. The fund, which is being administered by an office set up in Limerick and run by FÁS, is designed to help workers to retrain, to upskill and to provide funds for small business start-ups.

“However, concerns have been raised by a number of former Dell workers about difficulties in accessing the fund, while fears have been expressed that social welfare entitlements could be affected by former Dell workers applying for and accessing the funds.

“Tomorrow the Dell Redundant Workers Association, a support group which was set up to help the 2,000 people who lost their jobs in Limerick over a year ago plus a further 5,000 made redundant by companies that supplied goods and services to Dell, and Equal Rights 4 Non-Union Workers will appear before the Committee to outline their concerns about the European Globalisation Fund. It will also give members of the Committee an opportunity to discuss the fund and raise any issues they may have on its operation.”

The meeting will take place in Committee Room 4 at 11 am on Thursday, 4th March, 2010.

This proceedings can be viewed on-line here


For further information, contact:

Ciaran Brennan,
Houses of the Oireachtas,
Communications Unit,
Leinster House,
Dublin 2

P: +3531 618 3903
M: 086-0496518
F: +3531 618 4551
E: ciaran.brennan@oireachtas.ie