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SR Technics – SIPTU workers to meet Tanaiste on Thursday in campaign to save Dublin plant

Date Released: 16 Feb 2009

After meeting with workers in SR Technics today SIPTU Branch Organiser Pat Ward said that learning the details of the company’s closure plans was “a shock experience for members that quickly turned to anger.

“The workers now intend to pursue all means available to them to keep the facility open for business and, in turn, secure as many as possible of the 1,200 jobs. The decision to pull the maintenance facility from Dublin is wrong.

“There is no doubting the unique specialist nature of the work carried out by the SR Technics employees and if this vital industry is lost now it will never return to Ireland. A delegation of workers and their union representatives are to meet the Tanaiste on Thursday in Government Buildings to impress on her the importance of retaining this facility and the skills base for Ireland, which is the only EU economy without a land bridge to Europe and therefore highly dependent on a strong aviation sector.

“This is only start of an intense and focussed campaign to keep the aircraft maintenance industry open for business in Dublin”.