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Debenhams workers 365 days on the picket line

It is a year to the day when 1,000 Irish Debenhams workers received an email telling them that th...

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18.44 9 Apr 2021


Debenhams workers 365 days on the picket line


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It is a year to the day when 1,000 Irish Debenhams workers received an email telling them that they were losing their jobs.

And for the last 365 days some of the workers have been protesting.

The former workers never received any redundancy, despite this being agreed with the British high-street giant a few years before.

So staff, many of whom worked for the company for 20+ years were left jobless and penniless.

Our reporter Barry Whyte has been speaking to some of the ex Debenhams workers....


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