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Dell Closes Ireland Plant; 2nd Largest Employer 494

Posted by kdawson from the raining-under-this-tree-too dept.
Wide Angle writes in with a PBS report on tough economic news from Ireland: Dell announced that it will relocate its manufacturing plant in Limerick, Ireland to Lodz, Poland. "Dell's announcement... is a severe blow to the Irish economy, which has been hit hard and fast by the global economic crisis. Dell is Ireland's second-largest corporate employer and the country's largest exporter. Nineteen hundred shift workers will lose their jobs. ...Dell's closing is not a result of the economic downturn, but of a pattern all too familiar in the United States — corporations' perennial search for cheaper labor. Since 2000 several companies, such as Procter & Gamble, Intel, Gateway, and NEC Electronics, have moved manufacturing jobs from Ireland to China, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere. When Poland joined the European Union in 2004, it became an attractive place for companies to set up manufacturing plants. ... However, Ireland has managed to maintain and attract... 'knowledge-intensive jobs.' Google's European headquarters are based in Dublin, and Facebook announced late last year that they would locate their international headquarters there. But the overall economic picture for Ireland is bleak."

Comment Re:Actually, /. is amazingly tolerant of religion (Score 1) 1067

by fogbrain99 (#26344693) Attached to: In the next 12 months, the Middle East will be ...
Here are some 'truths': Scientific: "The geologic record has no indication of a massive world wide flood in 6000BC" Faith: "The world was covered with water in 6000BC. It went away leaving no trace in the geologic record" Faith in science: "Every event has a scientific explanation" The 'scientific' truth is consistent with either of the 'faith' based truths and does not provide a basis to choose between them. You always have to take something on faith if you want to claim to have the 'ultimate' truth.

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