Labour Court to resolve Coca-Cola row

THE three-week long dispute between Coca-Cola and a large section of its distribution staff should start to be resolved today at a hearing of the Labour Court.

The company wants to outsource or make redundant 130 of its distribution and warehousing staff at its sites in Cork, Kerry, Waterford, Tipperary, Galway and Dublin.

However, over recent weeks the members of union SIPTU have been protesting at what they say will be inferior conditions in the outsourced companies and have also insisted rationalisation could offset the need for such a move.