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'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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'An epic journey': Three former Debenhams workers on picketing during a pandemic


An epic journey : Three former Debenhams workers on picketing during a pandemic
Their picketing days are over but they are determined to keep fighting for workers’ protections.
By Michelle Hennessy
Saturday 22 May 2021, 6:00 AM
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Image: Sam Boal
Image: Sam Boal
WHEN THE NEWS broke in April 2020 that all Debenhams stores in Ireland were to shut as the company went into liquidation, workers were stunned.
They had just recently left their stores due to the Covid-19 restrictions, expecting to return with their colleagues and customers when the doors opened back up.
They never did, and since then staff have spent 406 days picketing outside, rain or shine (or pandemic), occupying stores and sometimes facing arrest as they fought, not just for their own right ....

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