The deal provides for about 150 redundancies on top of the roughly 50 jobs already lost to retirement
Workers at Tara Mines are voting on a proposed agreement intended to facilitate the reopening of the facility.
“There were a lot of questions and a lot of anger,” said senior Siptu official Adrian Kane after the meeting. He said acceptance or rejection of the deal was a matter for the members of the three unions – Unite and Connect also represent workers at the company – but that “what is said at meetings is sometimes quite different to what people do in the privacy of a ballot”.
“The question is ‘what would the alternative be?’” says Kane. “The staff certainly want the mine to open again, they’ve been hanging about for the last nine months but there is no doubt that what is being proposed involves really significant change.” The mine closed on what was said to be a temporary basis last summer with the owners saying they could not sustain the growing level of losses involved.
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