Protesting workers set to reject revised redundancy offer

WORKERS holding a 13-week sit-in protest in Co Tipperary are set to reject a €2.2 million redundancy package giving some of them over €52,500.

Staff at the Clonmel-based tannery of John Ronan and Sons, who’ve been engaged in a protest at the plant, have been given a management deadline of 5pm next Monday to accept the multi-million euro deal.

Each of the 56 workers involved in the sit-in have received letters from the company and told that if they fail to accept this “final and enhanced redundancy offer” by the deadline date, they will only be paid statutory redundancy.