Debenhams workers prepare to mark 150 days on picket as they reject €1m offer

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Debenhams workers are holding a series of nationwide protests today as they prepare to mark their 150th night on the picket lines in their campaign for better redundancy terms.

The laid-off workers have described a new one million euro deal proposed yesterday by liquidator KPMG and their trade union Mandate as a "slap in the face".

The workers say at least €10 million needs to be made available, and that there is €25 million worth of stock in the shops they are blockading.

Valerie Conlon, the shop steward for the former Debenhams department store on Patrick Street in Cork, said the deal is insulting: “It’s an insult, it’s a slap in the face to staff, especially those that have been out there nearly 150 days now, that’s what they thought