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2009

MARCH FOR JUSTICE – GREEN ISLE STRIKE - 10 WEEKS ON

Date Released: 28 Oct 2009

As you know the TEEU is in official dispute with Green Isle Foods, Naas. This dispute is the result of our efforts to have reinstated seven of our members who were wrongfully dismissed.

To raise awareness of the management’s injustice, and to show support for the workers involved, the Kildare Council of Trades Unions is organising a protest march on October 31, 2009.

It is essential that all available trade unionists and their families turn up to show their support for our members who are making a huge sacrifice for their colleagues who have been summarily dismissed.

Updates on the strike are as follows:

  • Management at Green Isle still refuses to engage with the TEEU, LRC, NIB, or the Labour Court.  This is despite the fact that they have accepted Irish State aid to the tune of €43,000,000
  • The ICTU has granted the All-out Picket
  • British Strike breakers have left the company after being arrested for public disorder offences, including serious assault. These have been replaced by Irish scabs hired by recruitment agencies.
  • Some of our members have broken the picket line and returned to work. Six of these have been expelled by the Executive Management Committee of the union.
  • We are now in the process of taking a case to the Labour Court under section 20. (1) of the  Industrial Relations Act 1969.
  • 33 members started out on the picket line.  That number is now reduced to 26.
  • These 26 men are now doing 24 hour picket duty 7 days a week.


Please make every effort to stand shoulder to shoulder with our courageous members by joining in the demonstration on October 31, 2009.

We urge you to come along and demonstrate solidarity with our members and their families who are showing tremendous bravery and resilience in their pursuit of fairness for our sacked members.  Not only have they lost out financially but constantly face being passed by staff, self-righteous management and smug scabs. These workers have mounting bills to pay and after ten weeks on strike pay, they are under intense financial and psychological strain.

Eamon Devoy,

General Secretary Designate

TEEU





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