Workers to maintain industrial action

WORKERS at a US company in Dublin have vowed to continue industrial action next week amid concern over guarantees on severance packages when the firm passes into new ownership from next January.

Production at the GE Superabrasives plant in the Clonshaugh Industrial Estate stopped yesterday as around 100 employees began a 48-hour strike.

The SIPTU union member strikers said the action was being taken following the decision of the company’s parent General Electric to sell its shares in GE Superabrasives to another US firm, Littlejohn Corporation, without any guarantees made to the staff.