A director and former non-executive chairman of Vita Cortex broke his silence on the bitter six-week dispute last night as the sit-in workers began protesting outside his home.

While recognising Vita Cortex workers’ rights to protest, the efforts of management to find a resolution should be acknowledged, writes John McHenry

Vita Cortex workers have taken their protest to the home of one of the company’s owners in Douglas, Cork.

TWO senior executives of the Vita Cortex operation in Cork received severance pay in excess of the amount needed to secure agreed redundancy payments for the 32 workers engaged in a sit-in at the plant.

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

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