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Vodafone Announces Offshoring of Jobs

As you will be aware the Communications Workers' Union held meetings in both Dublin and Dundalk recently to discuss Vodafone's decision to export jobs from its Call Centres in Dublin and Dundalk to Egypt and India. At these meetings members expressed a clear desire to take protest action against this decision by Vodafone to export these jobs and the Union assured members that they would be supported in the event that they exercised their democratic right to protest at Vodafone's decision.

It has come to the attention of the CWU that members who were considering taking protest action have been subjected to a campaign of misinformation and threats by some managers to discourage them from exercising their democratic rights. This is a further example of Vodafone's callous disregard for employees whose jobs they intend to export and the impact this decision will have on them and their families.

As a result of the actions of some managers the CWU has decided to conduct a ballot of Union members for official industrial action against Vodafone's decision to export jobs. In addition we will continue with our campaign to get Vodafone to change this decision.

Another matter raised at the meetings was the lack of clarity as to who will be affected by Vodafone's decision. The Union for its part has no further information on this other than the information already circulated to members on 27th May last which outlined the numbers involved and the areas which are Back Office, Mobile Data and Credit Management.

It is important for all members to bear in mind that regardless of what plans Vodafone have regarding who will be impacted, the bottom line is that if Vodafone achieves its objective of exporting these jobs currently based in Dublin and Dundalk, then based on the responses to questions put by the Union there is no guarantee that this is not the start of a process by Vodafone to disengage from Ireland and as such no job is safe!

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