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Sinn Fein and DUP back Unite’s demand for NI Housing Executive to hire Carillion workers

IRISH political parties gave their support today to the Unite union’s demand that Carillion workers be taken on by the public-sector Housing Executive.

About 250 workers in Northern Ireland were left at risk of losing their jobs when the British-based outsourcing transnational collapsed into liquidation.

Unite has demanded that the Housing Executive, for which the Carillion employees did maintenance work, hire the workers.

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