A national symbol of workers’ resistance

As the Vita Cortex workers face into the 50th day of their sit-in at the former foam factory over redundancy payments, there appears to be no end in sight to the dispute, writes Eoin English.

HELEN Crowley chokes back tears as she beds down on a dirty foam block for another long night on the freezing factory floor.

“I don’t look into the future too much because I just can’t go there. I just take it one day at a time,” she says, as she and her Vita Cortex colleagues face into the 50th day of their sit-in at the former Cork foam factory in their fight for redundancy payments.