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Updated at 8pm
UNION REPS AT Clerys are to meet with Siptu officials tomorrow morning to discuss their next move – following the landmark Dublin store’s shock closure on Friday with the loss of almost 500 jobs.
Devastated workers met for an emergency meeting at Liberty Hall yesterday – later marching to the shuttered store with ‘Justice for Clerys Workers’ placards.
SIPTU said the store’s workers had been “put on the street with no recourse” and called on the new owners of the department store to meet with them immediately.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie this afternoon, union organiser Teresa Hannick said they had also contacted liquidators KPMG and junior minister Ged Nash, who has responsibility for collective bargaining, to ask for meetings.
Nash has called for the new owners of the store, Natrium Ltd, to “engage immediately” with the workers.
“Tomorrow we’ll be organising a roster of daily protests – we’ve heard nothing from the new owners yet,” Hannick said.
“It probably is looking bleak – and it’s the manner in which this was done that’s the biggest problem for the workers.
We need to try and achieve the best possible outcome for our members.
Provisional liquidators were appointed to the company that operated the store following a High Court hearing on Friday. The development was completely unexpected – and shocked workers were told on Friday evening that all the jobs were gone.
“We were told at 1:30 that it’s being sold and a notice was put on the back door,” one worker said.
We were told at 5 o’clock that the store was closing at 5:30 and that customers had to leave. Then the meeting was called for six and we were told that it’s being liquidated and we are only entitled to our statutory pay.
Mr Justice Paul Gilligan had earlier appointed insolvency practitioners Eamon Richardson and Kieran Wallace of KPMG as joint provisional liquidators of OCS Operations Ltd, which had operated Clerys Department Store and Warehouse since 2012.
Hannick said today that the daily protests outside the store were being organised in order to keep up public pressure – and said it was essential that the statutory redundancy payments be paid as quickly as possible.
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That was cheap. If we had arranged and paid no doubt it would have been 2.5 million.
$7.9 million overall? Should have led with that!! Great for the Irish economy all the same – they should run another “Gathering” for politicians and Presidents!
And this is a scandal in the States? This happens on a daily basis here! We’re used to it, we’ve come to accept it as the norm!
Judging by the students reactions below her it looks like Malia is letting off some ripper of a fart.
And never have two young girls been so bored in their lives!
I wonder how many people invite guests to their house and total up what it cost to host them when they leave…
That’s 21c of toilet paper
€2.30 of electricity
€6 breakfast
80c milk and a tea bag
€1.50 for that glass you broke……
Don’t worry I don’t expect you to pay this I’m just making sure you and the whole world knows what my hospitality has cost me.
And where did all that money go seeing as Ireland is in such a ‘bad state’ ?
The culchies in the towns where he visited still have their communion money for fecks sake. No chance of that money being recirculated
Damn culchies. Stopping us all from being rich.
The book Animal Farm by George Orewell comes to my mind when I read about Obama admin and their extravagant lifestyles on US tax payers money.
During a recent trip to China the first family and their staff of about 70 stayed in the presidential suite at the Westin Chaoyang Hotel, which USA Today reports costs about $8,400 a night. Clearly the elite live by a different standard and have for a long time. Obama sure knows how to spend taxpayers money.
Yes he does, 100′s of millions on vacations, 4000 calorie state dinners, the best of everything including medical. Meanwhile the little people struggle with multiple part time jobs, poor quality high cost Obama care and young people not being able to find work after college. But he’s on their side right? What a delusion.
It won’t be too long before Obama will introduce in special powers to ban the very books that were written to demonize Soviet Russia. The tables have turned 180° and Now the United States has become the very same totalitarian Communist state.
The trip this week for our little president
To the uk prob will cost us a million
It’s a state visit, the host country pays.
The gathering or the shakedown with guilt of the diaspora as we all knew it to be.
And the book ” One flew over the cuckoos nest” comes to mind when I read some of these comments
Mike ya must be a dub
And the Govt will still tell you how great they are come the next election
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