USI’s O’Connor and Harmon join Paris Bakery protests
[…]that the owners of the bakery have exploited a loophole in the law to deny workers over €100,000 in owed pay. Later Joe and Laura will travel to a picket at the home of Ruth Savill, one of the owners of the defunct business. Speaking at the occupation on Dublin’s Moore Street, Joe O’Connor joined calls for the former employers of the workers, Ruth Savill and Yannick Forel, to pay their workers what they were owed, and added: “The government must immediately open up supports to care for these workers, who’ve been forced to sleep in their former workplace and […]