Galway Bay fm newsroom – Athenry-headquartered engineering firm C&F has cut up to 80 jobs at a subsidiary in the Philippines – but says the workers were not let go for attempting to form a trade union.
The company, which manufactures parts principally for the motor industry, has been accused of “union busting” by Dutch workers’ rights group Good Electronics.
According to the Irish Times, the group claimed the workers were let go after 63 of them registered with a union in the Philippines.
However, a C&F spokesperson has denied the workers were made redundant as a result of union affiliation or that the company had restrained union activity at the subsidiary.
The spokesperson said 80 of the subsidiary’s 400 staff had been made redundant as a result of ‘business efficiencies’ – and the restructuring decision was made prior to the company being notified of the existence of a union.
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