4HOME staff to picket as negotiations collapse

Workers at three 4HOME Superstores are to mount pickets tomorrow after negotiations with the company about redundancy packages broke down.

A last-minute solution that would see industrial action avoided looked hopeless today as Mandate — the union representing the workers who are to lose their jobs — said there had been no communication from the company. Workers will picket at the stores in Fermoy and Mitchelstown in Co Cork, and Annacotty in Co Limerick.