A dispute with an Irish labor union reportedly prompted GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) to withdraw job offers to several prospective employees just a day before they were to start.
The imaging giant is in the middle of a $44.7 million (€40 million) buildout of a facility in East Cork, Ireland, and had made the job offers to help staff the 140-worker expansion, according to the Irish Examiner.
Several dozen would-be employees interviewed for the jobs, passed aptitude and medical tests and, in some cases, inked contracts. But a dispute with the Services Industrial Professional & Technical Union over moving the plant from a 3-shift-a-day scheme to 4 shifts prompted GE Healthcare to rescind the offers, the newspaper reported.
“We have held discussions over several months with our employees’ nominated representatives about adding a 4th shift in order to fully utilize this increased capacity,” a spokeswoman told the paper. “We conducted an open, honest and fair process to reach an agreement that is both in the interests of our employees and that meets the increased demand for our products, used globally to monitor and diagnose disease.”
Still, SIPTU members voted to strike next month, leading to the decision to stop the new hires.
“In order to avoid the impact on patients from an interrupted supply, we have reluctantly decided to maintain our current shift arrangements,” the spokeswoman said. “We deeply regret that this means we are unable to continue with our plans to create additional jobs at the factory, and instead are having to withdraw some job offers. All those affected have been informed.”
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