SIPTU members at Bausch and Lomb plant in Waterford to strike over pay

SIPTU represents over 1,000 workers at the manufacturing plant which produces contact lenses and other pharmaceutical products

SIPTU members employed at Bausch and Lomb's manufacturing plant in Waterford City are to hold a two-hour strike tomorrow (11 June) beginning at noon as part of a pay dispute with the multinational.

The union said that tomorrow's strike will be the beginning of a campaign of industrial action involving a series of two-hour strikes.