JUST eight months after it was forced to put its 470 staff in its Dublin operation on protective notice, Lufthansa Technik Airmotive has secured a new engine contract which will secure the job security of its employees.

BRAUN has confirmed it is to make 160 of its 260 staff in Carlow redundant with a further 100 to be transferred to Newbridge.

Workers at Lufthansa Technik Airmotive in Dublin are to vote tomorrow on a new set of proposals aimed at saving the plant.

MORE than 200 jobs were axed in north Kerry last night in what is being termed as a catastrophe for the region's workforce on a par with the Limerick pull-out by computer giant Dell.

Management at Lufthansa Technik Airmotive is to hold a meeting with its parent company in Germany today after its new work practices were rejected by staff.

WORKERS at aircraft maintenance firm Lufthansa Technik Airmotive last night rejected the company’s flexibility proposals raising the prospect of up to 465 job losses at the Dublin operation.

AIRCRAFT maintenance firm Lufthansa Technik Airmotive has threatened it will shut down operations in Dublin with the loss of 465 jobs unless unions agree to new work practices.

Lufthansa Technik Airmotive is threatening to scrap plans for expanding its base in Dublin unless employees accept new work practices