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18/09/2019
Call For Govt To Support Laid Off Meat Workers
The Government is being urged to provide financial assistance to the thousands of workers who have been laid-off due to meat processing plant closures.
The SIPTU union made the demands as the Irish beef crisis continues.
SIPTU Organiser, Denis Gormalley, said: "SIPTU members are being forgotten about by the parties to this dispute and the Government must act immediately to alleviate the financial hardship workers are now facing. The disruptions at processing plants across the country now threaten the jobs of everybody in the beef industry. We are requesting an urgent meeting with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed, to address the crisis faced by workers in this industry."
SIPTU Organiser Terry Bryan added: "We are extremely worried about the current situation. There are thousands of workers on lay-offs and there is no sense of when the dispute might end. We are calling on the Government to develop a fund that will provide financial support to these workers and that the meat processors, as a group, should contribute to this fund to offset the real hardship their employees are now facing."
SIPTU Organiser Jason Palmer, said: "Our members are caught up in a dispute not of their making but they are the people suffering the most. They have already lost money because of the closures and are now worried about their future."
(JG/CM)
The SIPTU union made the demands as the Irish beef crisis continues.
SIPTU Organiser, Denis Gormalley, said: "SIPTU members are being forgotten about by the parties to this dispute and the Government must act immediately to alleviate the financial hardship workers are now facing. The disruptions at processing plants across the country now threaten the jobs of everybody in the beef industry. We are requesting an urgent meeting with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed, to address the crisis faced by workers in this industry."
SIPTU Organiser Terry Bryan added: "We are extremely worried about the current situation. There are thousands of workers on lay-offs and there is no sense of when the dispute might end. We are calling on the Government to develop a fund that will provide financial support to these workers and that the meat processors, as a group, should contribute to this fund to offset the real hardship their employees are now facing."
SIPTU Organiser Jason Palmer, said: "Our members are caught up in a dispute not of their making but they are the people suffering the most. They have already lost money because of the closures and are now worried about their future."
(JG/CM)
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