For the last couple of months I have been frequently reading news in the press on factories in Ireland being shut. There is many examples of it: Pfizer and Motorola in Cork or Procter and Gamble in Nenagh. The second one is said to cause 500 job losses. Procter and Gamble are moving to Poland to Aleksandrow Lodzki (just a town aside of Lodz - my home city). The reasons are obvious… I don’t expect monthly salary to be higher than 200 - 300 Eu in Procter and Gamble Polish factory. In that region minimal salary is 150 Eu, so they will find a lot of people willing to work for that ridiculous amount of money (200 - 300 Eu).
Apart of the fact that Procter and Gamble is moving to Poland, the thing which makes me afraid is shutting factories in Ireland to move them to the poorer countries to save money of payments.
I hope it is not the beginning of an end of the development and general good time for Ireland. Even today in Irish Independent there is an information about firm being shut it co. Clare, causing 100 job losses.
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