Green Isle Foods Clarification by TEEU
Feb 28th, 2010 by Conor McCabe
February 28th, 2010,
A number of media outlets persist in describing the dispute between the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union and Green Isle Foods in Naas as being about inappropriate emails.
This is not the case.
The dispute is over the unfair dismissal of three workers and union recognition.
The Labour Court, which has adjudicated on the dispute and which heard evidence from the TEEU and from IBEC on behalf of Green Isle Foods, found that the dismissals were unjustified. It recommended the immediate return to work of the TEEU members, no victimisation and compensation for the three dismissed men totalling €180,000 if the company was not prepared to re-employ them.
The persistent misrepresentation of the dispute is extremely damaging to the TEEU members on strike and particularly distressing to the hunger strikers, who did not access inappropriate material.
I would also like to add that Northern Foods, the parent company of Green Isle Foods is a major influence in this dispute. I would also like to point out that they closed the Donegal Catch factory in Boyle and moved operations to the UK. Incidentially this is the only plant out of 6 to close….ie was the only unionised plant !
Readers should look up Northern Foods to see how big a player they are in the food industry.
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