Thomas Cook staff face prison after court order to leave store

PROTESTING workers staging a sit-in at a Thomas Cook branch vowed last night to continue their action despite a final High Court order to leave.

The court said the protesters, who are locked in a bitter row with the travel giant over redundancy terms, had to be out of the Dublin office by 7pm last night or potentially face jail today.

More than 40 staff, including two pregnant women, occupied the shop in Grafton Street, Dublin, after management announced the immediate closure of the company’s two offices in the city on Friday afternoon.