'We're putting down the placards and walking away with our heads held high': Cork workers reflect as Debenhams dispute finally comes to an end

Sun, 23 May, 2021 - 09:11
'We're putting down the placards and walking away with our heads held high': Cork workers reflect as Debenhams dispute finally comes to an end
Some of the ex-Debenhams workers outside the former Debenhams store on Patrick's St., Cork, at the end of their 406 day struggle for justice.
Breda Graham
After over 406 days of picketing for a just redundancy settlement, former Debenhams workers put down their placards this week and are walking away with their “heads held high”.
It comes as a majority of former Debenhams staff voted to accept the offer of a €3 million training fund.
Former employees said that the settlement does not come anywhere close to the honouring of the four weeks’ pay per year’s service redundancy that was signed off with their former employer, but rather that they had fought “as hard as was possible”.

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