Former Clerys staff demonstrate outside Natrium offices in Dublin
A group of former workers from Clerys have protested outside the company that now owns the store in Dublin.
Around 30 staff – some of whom worked there for 40 years – held a demonstration outside the offices of Natrium at Harcourt Terrace.
It comes as Natrium today released a statement saying they're conscious the sudden closure had a serious impact on former workers, along with their plans to rejuvenate the site creating up to 1,700 jobs.
Now: #Clerys workers deliver a letter calling on Natrium to show some decency http://t.co/XzTVS07nU3 pic.twitter.com/TcbgjYB9ok
— SIPTU (@SIPTU) June 19, 2015
More than 400 people have been left without work after the Dublin department store went into liquidation last Friday.
Clerys workers stage protest outside office of new owner Natrium. Caroline and her husband met in the store in 1985. pic.twitter.com/OjiDVuC8oY
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Former staff members say they want more information about the future of the company from Natrium.
"I feel that we're on the scrapheap now because we're not employable anymore," said one man.
"It was my 39th year working in Clerys, so it's a bit of a shock, and it's hard to take at the moment."
The #Clerys workers must be treated with dignity and respect - All workers deserve justice! http://t.co/XzTVS07nU3 pic.twitter.com/oY0kBiGhDA
— SIPTU (@SIPTU) June 19, 2015
A female protester said: "We want to talk to Natrium, we want to know why they've done what they've done to us, why they've thrown us out so coldly".
Another said: " We've all lost out job. We've been given no reason why we've all lost our jobs - just that it's gone into liquidation.
"But we need to know more. There are very little facts we have from them."
