After 1 year and 5 months the Connolly Shoes workers are still fighting to get fair play after their employer sacked them. Since the strike started there have been seven separate hearings in the Labour Court. On each occasion the court has ruled in favour of the workers and instructed the employer to pay them all monies owed, which amounts to approximately €15,000. Connolly never attended any of the court hearings and has never paid any of the money owing.
The workers have now got a date in the Labour Court to hear the unfair dismissals case and they are hopeful that they will win this one too. They may, of course, still have to fight to get all the money owing to them.
Meanwhile one of the strikers, Damian Keegan, has opened his own Shoe Shop in Dun Laoghaire Shopping Centre (on the ground floor – just opposite Golden Discs) where one of the other strikers, Susan Tonge is also working.
John Mulpetre and Pat Byrne are still picketing at Connolly Shoes, so drop by and give them your support. And if you need shoes, where better to buy them than Keegan’s Footwear?