Smurfit Westrock in Lurgan is slashing one third of its workforce with 55 redundancies planned

Smurfit Westrock: Union hits out at 'plans to make 55 workers redundant'

Smurfit Westrock, who also have a site in Dublin, said they have begun a consultation process to restructure its Lurgan plant in Northern Ireland

Smurfit-Westrock job cuts in Lurgan ‘first step to closure’, union warns

Trade union Unite has warned that proposed redundancies at the Smurfit-Westrock packaging plant in Lurgan could be the first step towards the site’s eventual closure – a claim the company has not publicly addressed in detail. On Monday, the global paper and packaging giant confirmed plans to cut 55 jobs at the Annesborough industrial estate facility, roughly a third of the workforce. The plant, a long-established producer of corrugated cardboard…

Smurfit Westrock in Lurgan is slashing one third of its workforce with 55 redundancies planned

Smurfit Westrock in Lurgan is slashing a third of its workforce with 55 redundancies planned.

Job cuts at Smurfit-Westrock in Lurgan totally unjustified, Unite

Job cuts at Smurfit-Westrock in Lurgan totally unjustified, Unite   Company recording bumper profits and dividends, but investment needed to modernise Lurgan site is withheld while Smurfit spends millions sponsoring Ryder Cup Unite is warning that proposed job cuts by Smurfit-Westrock at its Lurgan site signals a first step in shutting the site entirely. On Monday, the company announced plans to make 55 workers redundant (a third of the workforc…