Siptu has called on management of a major pharmaceutical plant to come good on a promise to invest in the future after union members’ voted by more than three to one to accept a cost-cutting deal.

Siptu members at Bausch + Lomb in Waterford have voted in favour of a revised programme of cuts put forward by management at the plant.

Employees at pharmaceutical giant Bausch + Lomb have begun voting on a cutbacks "deal" which could decide if the plant will remain open into the future.

More than 1,100 workers at the southeast’s largest private sector employer are expected to vote early next week on a series of cuts which would see almost 200 of their number losing their jobs.

Workers at the giant Bausch + Lomb pharmaceutical plant in Waterford will tonight be briefed by their union leaders following the break-up without agreement of talks on the future of the company.

Children’s Minister Charlie Flanagan’s claim that the Government is giving "active consideration" to addressing the growing scandal of the mass child grave discovered at a mother and baby home in Galway has been deemed wholly inadequate by opposition parties.

On May 23, IDAIreland advertised for ‘35 results driven global business development opportunities’. The job is to win investment and employment for Ireland.

Ireland’s embassy in Washington has contacted a US senator to raise concerns over his call for over 1,100 at-risk jobs at a pharmaceutical giant in Waterford to be moved to New York.

A US senator has been criticised for encouraging the CEO of Bausch + Lomb’s parent company to move the 1,100-plus Waterford-based jobs to New York.

Staff at Bausch + Lomb are facing average cuts of €6,000 to their basic pay under the cost-cutting plan announced by the company.

The very sobering suggestion, if that is all it really was, from IDA chief executive Barry O’Leary yesterday that workers at the Bausch + Lomb plant in Waterford have little option but to carefully consider the take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum put to them this week by the company’s new owners must send another shiver down the spines of the 161,000 workers employed by foreign firms.

The Government has denied it asked a pharmaceutical giant which announced 200 job losses yesterday to delay the news until after the local elections.

The Labour Court has recommended that global eyehealth company Bausch + Lomb award its 900 Siptu workers a phased 6% pay increase.