23-10-2009 Limerick Reader: Boycott of Dell products urged

Excerpt from the news report:

The chairman of the Dell Workers Representative Group has urged a boycott of Dell products.

At the end of this month, around 250 front-line staff are to lose their jobs in Dell, but over the last month Dell has taken on at least 200 temporary staff on short-term contracts to meet special orders in the run up to Christmas.

Some of the workers being laid off have asked management if they could come back to fill these roles, but were told they would have to go through the Manpower temping agency.

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Asked if he felt former workers would be willing to re-apply through an agency, Mr Ryan [chairman of the group] said: "Why should they be employed by an agency when they are already working there. Why get sacked on a Friday, and then re-apply through an agency on Monday, with no guarantee of work? It is illogical and lacks common sense."

He stated that he would "never purchase a Dell product again. That would be my way of showing my contempt for that company; the way they have treated the workers. I would urge everyone to boycott Dell products."