A PROTEST by workers at the Liebherr container crane factory, in Killarney, is to go ahead on Thursday at the opening of 3 Irish Open Golf Championship in the town, SIPTU confirmed yesterday.

THE Liebherr company in Killarney has claimed it is not breaching any agreement by obliging employees to take two days’ holidays during the four-day 3 Irish Open Golf Championship in the Kerry town.

TOURISM and business interests in Killarney yesterday appealed to a group of local workers not go ahead with a decision to protest during the 3 Irish Open Golf Championship in the town, later this month.

STRIKING lift mechanics are to mount rolling pickets outside shopping centres where British company Otis is contracted to maintain lifts and escalators.

FURTHER talks are due to take place under the Labour Relations Commission today in an effort to break the deadlock in a dispute at the Liebherr crane factory in Killarney.

A DISPUTE about a staff pension scheme at the Liebherr crane factory in Killarney, Co Kerry, remains deadlocked following the breakdown of talks at the Labour Relations Commission (LRC).

UPWARDS of 350 staff at the Liebherr container crane factory in Killarney, Co Kerry, yesterday downed tools in a one-day stoppage over pensions.

MORE THAN 700 Great Southern Hotels workers are to go on strike if the Labour Court fails on Wednesday to break the deadlock over employee entitlements, ahead of the sale of the chain.

Staff at Great Southern Hotels are threatening strike action unless agreement can be reached with the new owners on issues such as wages, pensions and job conditions.

REDUNDANCIES at the Sara Lee factory, in Killarney due to close next month with the loss of 92 jobs, are to start this week.

TWO factories in Killarney, Co Kerry, are to close with the loss of nearly 100 jobs because of competition from China.

AN unfair dismissals case in which two Polish workers said they were driven by taxis to Cork Airport and handed one-way plane tickets back to Poland was settled yesterday.