Post by Papa C. on Aug 1, 2009 20:59:25 GMT
Thomas Cook workers have staged a sit in after they were told to leave the shop as it is closed. The workers are sitting in, demanding to speak with the management and arrange some sort of decent redundancy package - all power to them...
Some news articles in the media.
Thomas Cook workers on Talbot Street join lock-in
Saturday August 01 2009
The protest by Thomas Cook workers in Dublin has spread to the company's second store in the capital.
Almost 50 workers, including two pregnant women, at the Grafton Street and Talbot Street branches are refusing to leave the premises until the travel agent agrees to offer them a fairer redundancy deal than the five weeks that's on offer.
The company shut both its stores yesterday ahead of schedule, they were due to close at the end of the month with the loss of at least 77 jobs.
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Thomas Cook store sit-in spreads
A sit-in by disgruntled Thomas Cook staff in Ireland has spread to a second store in Dublin, a union leader said. Skip related content
They are protesting at redundancy terms following the early closure of the high street operation. Almost 50 workers, including two pregnant women, vowed to remain in the Dublin outlets until bosses offer a better redundancy package.
A spokesman for the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) said: "Eight staff at a Direct Holidays shop in Talbot Street started the sit-in after security workers turned up saying they had been ordered by Thomas Cook to close the shop." Another 40 staff in Thomas Cook's Grafton Street store then began their industrial action.
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High Court orders Thomas Cook workers to leave
Saturday August 01 2009
The High Court has served an order on protesting Thomas Cook workers asking them to leave the premises.
More than 40 workers are staging a sit-in at the company's branches on Grafton Street and Talbot Street after management closed both stores ahead of schedule yesterday.
Staff are angry at the early closure and the redundancy terms, and are vowing to stay in the premises. More than 77 jobs are being lost.
Gerry Doherty, spokesman for the TSSA the union representing the workers, says they're not going anywhere,
"An officer from the court arrived this afternoon posted something through the letterbox which we posted it back to him and there was a notice put on the window. I understand it's an injunction put against us to leave the premises but we're not leaving".
