PARTRIDGES, as everybody knows, frequent pear trees during Christmas, although no self-respecting one would be seen dead in a tree at other times of the year.

FORMER Greencore workers have voted to end a protracted redundancy dispute in a move they say will allow them to get on with their lives.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern has been asked to intervene in the nine-month-old dispute between Greencore and former Irish Sugar workers over redundancy payments.

GREENCORE’S plans to develop a €500 million project on the site of the former Mallow Sugar Factory could be delayed.

FORMER workers at Irish Sugar in Mallow yesterday called on Agriculture and Food Minister Mary Coughlan not to pay Greencore its share of the European Union sugar industry restructuring fund.

FORMER Greencore workers have asked Cork county councillors to block any attempts by their ex-employer to redevelop the 400-acre site at Mallow — until they get their redundancy entitlements.

MORE than 150 former Irish Sugar workers are to protest in Dublin on Monday over the refusal by their former employer to pay them a Labour Court agreed redundancy package.

GREENCORE has said it is not prepared to honour the Labour Court’s recommendation on the amount of redundancy pay it should give the workers which it made redundant in North Cork when Irish Sugar production ceased last May.

MANAGEMENT at Greencore has threatened to withdraw bonus payments of up to €7,000 if former staff proceed with strike action at its north Cork plant tomorrow.

MORE than 1,000 people took part in a protest march in Mallow in support of former Irish Sugar workers who have accused parent company Greencore of failing to honour a Labour Court recommendation relating to their redundancy payments.

THE unions representing Greencore workers are to serve strike action on the company later this week.

HUNDREDS of people are to march through the streets of Mallow on September 23 to protest at the way one of the town’s biggest former employers has handled the redundancy package for its workers.

IT’S 12 weeks on and we still have not received proper redundancy payments from Greencore despite the fact our signed agreement says we’re entitled to them.

PRESSURE is building on Greencore in a dispute over redundancy terms for the 324 workers who lost their jobs with the closure of Mallow Sugar Factory.