Speaking today following the announcement of the job loses in Waters Glass in Cork Jonathan O'Brien expressed his disappointment that the factory was not saved.
Jonathan along with local area Cllr Mick Nugent attended the factory to meet with the workers yesterday.
He stated
"Having spoken to the workers at the factory yesterday my understanding is that an opportunity to save the jobs failed at the last moment due to a failure to reach an agreement with the banks on a takeover bid.This is a terrible blow to the workers many with young families and mortgages and to Cork City as a whole.
All 84 jobs are to be lost with 41 of those today Tuesday.My hope is that these jobs could still be saved if there was intervention by Government.I will be speaking with the Dept of Enterprise today to explore the possibility of saving the remaining jobs. These skilled workers are facing into what is a very bleak jobs market.The continued austerity of this Government is not helping and they need to take a new direction."
Clrr Mick Nugent added
"This is a major loss to the north side of Cork.The Government needs to actively protect the jobs that are in place through early intervention and avoid what has happened here in Cork today."END
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