Viva la Vita: Workers celebrate as 139-day sit-in ends

After 139 days of round-the-clock sit-ins, the former employees of Vita Cortex have finally secured a severance deal with their former employer which will allow them to go home within a fortnight.

The workers were paid their statutory redundancy in February but for almost five months, they have maintained their protest in pursuit of a 0.9 weeks’ pay per year of service ex-gratia payment they claim they were promised. The total value of those payments is in the region of €372,000.

Neither side would reveal last night the payments which have been agreed, but the former employees of the Kinsale Road foam factory were in celebratory mood last night.