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Union submits cost saving proposals to save DHL jobs across Ireland
15 May 2009
An Irish union has put together a number of cost-saving proposals as part of efforts to reduce the number of jobs lost across seven regional DHL depots in the Republic of Ireland.
The proposals were put to the company earlier this week after the company agreed to enter into a cost evaluation process with the ITF-affiliated Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union (Siptu). The agreement was reached following three hours of negotiation on 11 May. DHL also promised to provide Siptu with more detailed information on its proposed cutbacks in the Republic. The union aims to avert some depot closures and see the number of job losses minimised; the company had announced that some 320 jobs would be axed.
Apart from submitting proposals to cut costs, Siptu is bringing in economist Paul Sweeney from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions to examine the company’s financial situation.
Siptu branch organiser Pat Ward said: “We put forward a number of proposals that could result in significant savings for the company and that might avert the closure of all the depots. The company acknowledged that the proposals we fielded were innovative and could cut costs considerably but management representatives could not say if they were sufficient.
“That is why Paul Sweeney is being brought in, at our request, to examine the books and help assess the true state of affairs.”
Ward also said that the company had “expressed a willingness to engage with us in looking for alternative measures that might avert the closure of depots and reduce the number of redundancies.”
He added: “The impact of these job losses, on top of those already announced in other companies, is transforming areas such as North Dublin and Shannon from dynamic economic growth centres to unemployment crisis zones. We now need both national and local initiatives to save existing jobs and to create new ones to replace those currently being lost.”
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