Siptu workers at Pfizer call off industrial action

Siptu workers at pharmaceutical company Pfizer have ceased industrial action which had been triggered over a pensions row.

The union’s 250 members at the Pfizer plant in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork decided to put a block on all overtime after the company said 35 new employees wouldn’t be allowed the same pension plan as their colleagues.

Siptu sector organiser Alan O’Leary said that the dispute erupted after the failure of the company to put the new entrants on the defined benefit pension scheme.