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Siemens workers to get pay rise

More than 300 workers at one of Siemens’s Irish factories are in line for a pay rise after a recent Labour Court ruling.

Trade union Unite took a pay claim on behalf of 180 workers at Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Manufacturing, which has about 320 workers at its facility in Swords, Co Dublin.

The company was instructed to give 2.5 per cent pay increases to the 180 workers ...