Thousands March in Cork to Support Vita Cortex Workers

Ray
Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:00:41 +0000
Workplace occupation, Workplace, Cork, Newsroom, News, Ray Hanrahan

An estimated 5,000 people marched in the streets of Cork yesterday to show their support for the former workers of the Vita Cortex factory, who have spent nearly 60 days occupying their former workplace as part of a struggle to get their former boss Jack Ronan to pay a €1.2m redundancy package that had been promised to them since last September. The march, organised by the Cork Council of Trade Unions, left from Connolly Hall on Lapp's Quay and concluded at the plaza at the southern end of Grand Parade, via Parnell Place and Patrick St.