Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

I voice my strong support for workers in the Iceland supermarket at Coolock, Dublin, who are sitting in this lunchtime to defend jobs. I also voice my strong support for all Iceland workers, many of whom found themselves locked out this morning following four months of total and disgraceful mismanagement by the new owners, who are arguably the biggest cowboys since the days of John Wayne and the Wild West.

The company was in the High Court yesterday to be placed in interim examinership and 344 jobs are at stake across the country, including 50 in Cork. Examinership is no friend of working people so I welcome the independent action of the Coolock workers. I hope their bold example to safeguard jobs is followed by Iceland workers in Cork and across the country.

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