{"id":285871,"date":"2026-02-07T15:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T15:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/285871\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T15:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T15:31:13","slug":"siptu-shocked-and-angered-by-scale-of-kostal-redundancies-radiokerry-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/285871\/","title":{"rendered":"SIPTU shocked and angered by scale of Kostal redundancies | RadioKerry.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trade union SIPTU has expressed shock and anger at the scale of redundancies sought by management of the Kostal Abbeyfeale plant.<\/p>\n<p>Kostal is a major employer in West Limerick and North Kerry, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/around-140-jobs-to-go-at-kostal-abbeyfeale-470758\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last night<\/a> it was confirmed up to 140 jobs will be lost at the Abbeyfeale facility.<\/p>\n<p>The redundancies follow Kostal\u2019s decision to transfer the production of on-board chargers from Abbeyfeale to China, which it\u2019s understood will occur in the last quarter of this year.<\/p>\n<p>SIPTU organiser Eva Mitchell says the confirmation of the scale of redundancies has caused deep distress and anger among employees, their families, and the wider community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.siptu.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SIPTU<\/a> says the 30-day statutory consultation period between the company and workers\u2019 representatives is due to begin next week, and the union will fully engage in this process.<\/p>\n<p>SIPTU also said any redundancies arising from the process will initially be voluntary.<\/p>\n<p>The union says the loss of 140 skilled, high-value jobs will be widely felt and will have a lasting impact locally.<\/p>\n<p>SIPTU also called on state agencies to engage with the community to plan for the creation of future high-quality jobs, on which the local economy depends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trade union SIPTU has expressed shock and anger at the scale of redundancies sought by management of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,15067],"class_list":{"0":"post-285871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-redundancies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}