Former workers at the Irish Glass Bottle Company in Ringsend, Dublin, will meet on Monday to decide how to further their campaign for better redundancy payments.
The workers voted yesterday to reject a revised redundancy payments offer from the company by a margin of 123 votes to 84.
Ardagh plc, which closed the company with the loss of 375 jobs in July, had given the staff until midnight last night to accept the offer, worked out in talks at the Labour Court last week.
The deal gave workers five weeks' pay per year of service, in line with an earlier recommendation of the Labour Court that the company had refused to implement.
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The new offer was capped, however, at €42,500 per worker, regardless of their years' of service.