{"id":276657,"date":"2026-01-09T22:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/276657\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T22:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:19:08","slug":"siptu-vows-to-protect-as-many-jobs-as-possible-at-kostal-abbeyfeale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/276657\/","title":{"rendered":"SIPTU vows to protect as many jobs as possible at Kostal Abbeyfeale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SIPTU is vowing to protect as many jobs as possible at an electronics factory in West Limerick.<\/p>\n<p>Management at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/kostal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kostal in Abbeyfeale<\/a> confirmed that the manufacturing of On-Board Chargers (OBCs) for electric vehicles will move to China.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kostal.com\/de\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">German-headquartered company<\/a> has committed to informing staff of the number of compulsory redundancies early next month (February).<\/p>\n<p>SIPTU organiser at Kostal Abbeyfeale, Eva Mitchell,\u00a0says the lack of information is creating uncertainty and anxiety for workers at the plant, and the wider community:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SIPTU is vowing to protect as many jobs as possible at an electronics factory in West Limerick. Management&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,139923],"class_list":{"0":"post-276657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-kostal-abbeyfeale"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115867468895521867","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}