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Hundreds of plumbers to strike at Intel and Pfizer sites despite employer’s bid for injunction

Jones Engineering had tried to get High Court action to stop industrial action, but strikes are to proceed in a dispute over travel allowance for plumbers

Pfizer: plumbers working at the company’s Grange Castle campus will strike tomorrow

Around 250 mechanical staff working at Intel’s Leixlip site and Pfizer’s Grange Castle campus will strike tomorrow despite a High Court action by a major construction firm aimed at stopping them from taking industrial action.

Unite, the trade union, this evening confirmed that a plumbers’ strike scheduled for tomorrow would take place after a High Court hearing today at which HA O’Neil Ltd, which is part of the Jones Engineering group, sought an injunction restraining ...