The European Commission has announced that the EU's European Globalisation Fund (EGF) will provide €14.8m to match the Irish Government's €8m - -  €22.8m in total or €9,500 per head - - to retrain, upskill and offer further educational opportunities to up to 2,400 affected workers who have been made redundant at the Dell computer manufacturing plant at Raheen, Co. Limerick and at ancillary enterprises in the Mid West region. Without begrudging the beneficiaries of the help coming their way, it is relevant to ask if this is another example of official reaction to collective power, which contrasts with individual powerlessness of tens of thousands of others who have lost their jobs.