WORKERS from Inishowen
are among the 900 employees who will lose their jobs
with the closure of the Seagate plant in Co. Derry.
Staff including people living in Muff and the
eastern shores of the peninsula, were given the
devastating news yesterday that the US manufacturer
of disc drive components, will shut its Limavady
plant next year.
SDLP assembly member John Dallat said it was a
"disaster" for the North West region and warned that
more losses may come.
Sinn Féin's Francie Brolly accused Seagate and other
global companies of behaving like "travelling
circuses".
"They go to Limavady while they have the conditions
that they require," Mr. Brolly told the BBC.
"When they discover that somewhere in the world they
can make more money, because labour costs are
cheaper or whatever, they go there."
Seagate has had a base at Limavady for more than ten
years.
Management emphatically stressed yesterday that the
jobs of more than 1,000 employees at the company's
Derry plant - again including Inishowen workers -
were safe. |
