SIPTU calls for LRC to intervene in Lagan Brick row

Profile by Sean McMahon Updated: Wednesday, 4th January, 2012 5:30pm

SIPTU President Jack O'Connor meeting with the staff of Lagan Brick outside the gates of the Kingscourt Plant on Friday morning. From left: Gerry Whyte, Stevie Burns, Jack O'Connor and Philip Clarke.PHOTO: ALEX COLEMAN

SIPTU is calling on the management at Lagan Brick in Kingscourt to commit to Labour Relations Commission (LRC) conciliation aimed at reaching satisfactory redundancy and severance terms for 29 workers who lost their jobs the week before Christmas with the shock announcement of the closure of the plant.

The call came as SIPTU president Jack O'Connor visited the workers on the vigil outside the former Kingscourt Brick factory last Friday morning.

Full story in this week's Anglo-Celt.