Sixth week of sit-in as Vita Cortex talks break down

Workers at the Vita Cortex plant in Cork are entering their sixth week of a sit-in after almost 12 hours of talks failed to achieve any breakthrough in a stand-off over redundancy payments.

Labour Relations Commission talks aimed at resolving the dispute adjourned on Saturday night with no plans to re-convene after the parties failed to reach agreement. Workers and management at the foam packaging plant met in an attempt to break the impasse, but a spokesman for the LRC said they had not been able to find a basis for agreement.

Director of conciliation services at the LRC Kevin Foley said they would maintain contact with the parties.