Workers fight timber plant’s redundancies that are ‘a kick in the teeth’

FURIOUS Fermoy workers, backed by SIPTU, warned yesterday they will fight a ‘paltry’ redundancy offer at a local timber plant, due to close next month.

The Limerick-based McMahon Group, one of the country’s largest builders’ suppliers, are refusing to give a severance package to 27 workers at its Integrated Timber Engineering Company (ITEC) plant.

Worker John Mulcahy said yesterday: “The shutdown announcement was a shock but the redundancy offer was a real kick in the teeth.”