The Technical, Engineering and Electrical Union (ICTU) is to launch an online petition today in support of picketing workers at Green Isle Foods.

The six-month dispute at the Green Isle Foods plant in Naas in Co Kildare takes a new twist today.

A GREEN ISLE shop steward who begins a hunger strike outside the company’s Naas plant this afternoon has vowed his protest will continue until the six-month long dispute is resolved.