Strike action hits production at two cement plants

Production was hit yesterday at two Irish Cement plants as a results of official union-backed pickets at Castlemungret in Co Limerick and Platin in Co Meath.

Strike action   hits production at two cement plants

About 100 people are employed at both plants but the workforce had been halved over the past two years.

A spokesman for the company said workers had rejected a Labour Court recommendation they take a 6% wage cut.

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