Workers to protest at Waterford festival

WORKERS at Dawn Meats and Unite union officials are distributing leaflets at this weekend’s Waterford Food Festival in protest over health, safety and pay issues.

Unite officials say they have received no reply to any communications sent to the company about the concerns of workers at the plant in Grannagh, Co Waterford.

Unite officer Roy Hassey said: “Dawn Meats is one of the sponsors at the food festival, so we want people to know the kind of company they are buying from. We wrote to the company and told them that if they wrote back to agree a date for a meeting, we would call of the leaflet drop.