Workers from an Irish-owned Company, Greencore Cakes and Desserts, in Hull in the United Kingdom have arrived in Ireland this morning to protest against what they are calling unfair treatment. Employees have claimed they are being threatened with redundancy if they do not accept changes to their contracts.
The group will deliver a petition to senior management at their offices in Santry and to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Greencore Group plc has 23 convenience foods manufacturing sites in the UK and the US, and employs in the region of 11,000 people. The argument stems from proposed changes to the workers terms and condition or their roles will be made redundant. The workers union has stated that they (employees) must now work all hours for basic pay, with all overtime and shift pay abolished and no extra pay for working bank holidays. Greencore believe that the employees union (Unite) was "deliberately misrepresenting the facts of the present situation and strongly refutes the assertion that it has contravened any employment law at any stage during the course of this process."
