C&C Group staff in Tipperary learn of job losses from media

SIPTU has slammed as “atrocious” the treatment by C&C Group of workers at a water bottling plant in Borrisoleigh, Co Tipperary, who learned through the media that they are to lose their jobs.

Meetings were held yesterday between management and union representatives after news broke that the company is to close its M&J Gleeson bottling operation, with the loss of more than 120 jobs.

The “consolidation” move is part of a €15m cost-cutting exercise by C&C, who took over M&J Gleeson in 2014, with a cider-making factory in Somerset, England, also slated for closure.