Workers threaten sit-in protest over closure at Tara Mines

Siptu divisional organiser Adrian Kane. File picture: Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland

Trade unions at Tara Mines are planning a mass sit-in if they cannot resolve outstanding issues over the proposed shutdown of Europe’s largest zinc mine.

Negotiations over the decision by Boliden, the company that operates Tara Mines, to temporarily shut it down have failed to yield a solution. The company has announced the planned shutdown is to go ahead and as many as 650 employees will be temporarily laid off as a result.