3,000 Dell workers find out their fate in October
Today’s Limerick Leader reveals that an official announcement on the future of Dell Computers in Limerick will be made in October. As we revealed yesterday, Reuters reported that the Polish city of Lodz has been chosen as the location for the new Eastern European facility.
There are now fears that Dell’s Limerick operations will be either downsized or even closed down should mass production of computers be moved to Poland.
A spokeswoman for Dell told the Leader that a decision on the second facility at the end of this quarter. The working year at Dell is divided into “quarters” ending in January, April, July and October. The current quarter will end at the Hallowe’en weekend.
“We believe that the new facility will considerably compliment Limerick’s operation,” the spokeswoman told the paper.
But what the spokeswoman failed to say was which plant was now the second one, Limerick or Poland. If an announcement has been made in the Polish media then it would appear that we will know what is going to happen to Limerick long before October.
Will the smaller EMF3 be known from now on as Dell’s Second facility? Only time will reveal all.