Employment centre ‘work in’

FORMER workers at an Employment Resource Centre in Cork have reopened the closed centre and are running it voluntarily.

The eight ex-employees are staging a ‘work in’ at the resource centre on North Main Street, which closed on December 22 after the loss of a Fás funding contract.

Formerly run by the Cork Council of Trade Unions, the centre was reopened this week in a protest move inspired by former workers at the Vita Cortex plant. Both operations closed three days before Christmas.