Former IFI workers to blockade ammonia ships in pay protest

ANGRY former IFI workers have vowed to blockade any ships trying to remove 26,000 tonnes of ammonia stockpiled at the Marino Point plant in Cobh, Co Cork.

The threat was made yesterday after dozens of former employees tore up documents which would have entitled them to an interim payment of 5,000 until they got their redundancy packages.

The ex-workers say signing the form could result in them losing some of their rights and they wouldn’t be in a position to make further claims against the shareholders, the Government-controlled NET and British multinational ICI.