Debenhams workers right now are blocking an attempt by the company to move cash out of their store. Full support for their stand. #Debenhams pic.twitter.com/AyvqlifXyA
— Mick Barry TD (@MickBarryTD) May 26, 2020
#Debenhams workers Cork city blocking truck trying to get away with the safe from the Patrick St shop. That money is needed to defend jobs or at the very least decent redundancy packages. Congratulations to the workers taking a stand against daylight robbery! pic.twitter.com/oS9N6vdpFG
— Mick Barry TD (@MickBarryTD) May 26, 2020
This afternoon.
Cork City.
More as we get it.
Meanwhile….
This afternoon.
Bank of Ireland, College Green, Dublin 2.
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The website is still up and taking orders by the look of it, FYI.
Seriously Mick, that just looks like a van to me, as opposed to a cash transit van. But shure, anything for publicity.
It’s GSLS, who have white Mercedes Sprinter vans, so indeed it is a cash in transit vehicle.
Debenhams Support Demo outside the Bank of Ireland Long Mile Road there today as well
What do they want the Bank and\or Gov to do ?
Drawing attention to the fact that Bank of Ireland is a part owner of the business, along with Barclays, Silver Point Capital and GoldenTree, and that it is not a compulsory liquidation – in other words, the owners have decided to liquidate it but haven’t been forced to.
I went through a statutory redundancy and nearly found my self on the side of the street
This liquidation was seriously crooked
Let’s face it no one cared a rats posterior
As for unions ha
completely
If ever there was a group of justifiably aggrieved folks throwing away the last few kilos of public sympathy and support it is this constant picketing and publicity.
Lookit: If you’re entitled to compensation or redundancy you will undoubtedly get it. If you’re looking for your job back or a Debenhams transfer, then forget it.
I think the issue at hand is Debenhams saying “we have no money” while driving away a van full of money
Unless you are a normal punter, that would pretty much be how bankruptcy works!
While I feel for the workers, it’s not as if this cash is going straight to the directors so that they can have a money fight – it’s just as likely going to unsecured creditors, who hoping to get pennies on the euro for whatever thousands they are owed.