The Vita Cortex workers hope that a crucial meeting today between the Taoiseach and the Enterprise Minister will result in a breakthrough in their protracted 54-day sit-in.

We are not giving up until you pay up — that was the defiant message from the Vita Cortex workers to their former employer last night after taking their protest to the gates of his home.

TALKS aimed at ending a month-long sit-in by the Vita Cortex workers in Cork will resume on Friday after they finished last night without a resolution.

FIANNA Fáil leader Micheál Martin called on three Government ministers last night to intervene in the Vita Cortex dispute — 26 days old today — and find a resolution that would allow the workers go home.

FIVE hundred people rallied in support for the Vita Cortex workers yesterday.

WORKERS occupying a foam packaging manufacturing plant in Cork city will receive statutory redundancy from the state’s social insurance fund — if their employer does not pay.

SIPTU general secretary Joe O’Flynn visited workers engaged in a protest sit-in at the Vita Cortex plant in Cork yesterday.

FACTORY workers fighting for redundancy began a sit-in at their plant which closed down yesterday.

“WE’RE not giving up without a fight.”

PRESSURE is mounting on the Finance Minister to force NAMA to release funds to pay workers their redundancy before they lose their jobs tomorrow.