Who is jack ronan vita cortex

The individuals, companies, and financial and state institutions involved represent different facets of a ruling kleptocracy set on reducing the working class to levels of poverty not seen for decades. Local firefighters have been delivering breakfast to the occupying workers. A taxi firm has offered its services free of charge, while a hotel offered Christmas dinners. A Facebook page bearing Christmas greetings rapidly drew more than 1, supporters.

Messages of support have been relayed by the local radio station. The entire union bureaucracy fully agrees that the working class should pay for the excesses of the financial aristocracy.

Subscribe now. Revoiced Newsletter. Sign Up. Suzanne Harrington. Lunchtime News Wrap. Sign up. The Mick Clifford Podcast. Most Read. December 14, by namawinelake. As we count down the days to Christmas, we probably become more sensitive than usual to the plight of our fellow man. And so the story coming out from Cork of workers not only facing redundancy at this of all times of year, but that they may not even receive their redundancy entitlements, strikes a particular chord. NAMA is being portrayed as a Scrooge character and the case has now attracted the attention of politicians and unions.

Vita Cortex is a company based on Kinsale Road, Cork city which manufactures foam products for a range of industries including bedding and furniture, packaging and aircraft. History of the company and product range is here. In September it announced it intending to shut Vita Cortex down on 16 th December, — about 33 employees are to lose their jobs.

So where does NAMA come into this? Quite rightly the Vita Cortex story has become national news — redundancy the week before Christmas is particularly harsh. RTE covered the story this evening here. Hopefully the Department of Social Protection will do its work quickly and efficiently and ensure the workers receive their statutory allowance as soon as possible. At least three politicians have now gotten involved, Ciaran Lynch first followed by Micheal Martin and Jerry Buttimer.

The sit-in by the 32 continues with shifts of 12 former workers normally maintaining a presence at the facility at any one time. The workers have set up a Facebook page here. Lastly there was a Christmas mass said on the site, which the Irish Examiner recorded, part of which is available here. Not that it will help the Vita Cortex workers, but the head of the Labour Relations Commission which last week oversaw unsuccessful talks between workers and Vita Cortex management has exonerated NAMA from fault in matter.

Menu Sections. Losses at the group coincided with Vita Five Five subsidiary Vita Cortex being involved in a long-running dispute when workers staged a five-month sit-in at the company's Cork plant in a row over redundancy payments.

Workers ended their sit-in in May after receiving their redundancy payments and they were subsequently greeted at Aras an Uachtarain by President Michael D Higgins. Details of the profits and losses of the Vita Cortex group firms are contained in accounts just lodged by parent firm Vita Five Five to the Companies Office.