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Strike action threat at GE Healthcare scuppers recruitment plans

Friday, 26 August 2016 11:11

The firm has withdrawn some of the job offers issued this year and informed the people involved

An east Cork based company has admitted that it has had to withdraw jobs offered to people due to the threat of strike action at the firm..

Last December GE Healthcare announced that it was to create 140 jobs as part of a multi million euro investment in it's operations in Carrigtwohill.. 
At the time the firm, which currently employs 500 people, announced plans to double the production capacity at the site 

However the company has now admitted that after engaging in talks with union representatives at the plant over the last number of months about adding a fourth shift that these talks have failed and they cannot continue with their plans to create additional jobs at the firm.. 

GE Healthcare says in a SIPTU ballot workers voted for strike action next month so in an effort to avoid this the firm has withdrawn some of the job offers and informed the people involved.. 

Anne's son is one of those affected by the move and she told the Neil Prendeville Show on Cork's RedFM that her son gave up full time employment to take up this job 

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