March 9th, 2010. Green Isle Third Worker New Work Visa Issued John Recto, the third Green Isle Foods worker to join the hunger strike over the unfair dismissal of trade union members at the plant last July received a new work visa today from the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service. His last visa ran out yesterday. He was informed last Wednesday, the same day he joined the hunger strike, his existing visa would not be renewed and it was taken from him, along with that of his wife Liezel. John Recto had worked at the Green Isle Foods facility in Naas for eight years and his wife had joined him from the Philippines five years ago along with their sons Shaun and Kenan. Last year the couple had another son Emmanuel John, who was born in Ireland. They applied for naturalisation in 2008. The dispute was resolved last Thursday. On the same day Irish Congress of Trade Unions General Secretary David Begg and the General Secretary Designate of the Technical and Engineering Union Eamon Devoy wrote to the INIS requesting that the Recto family be allowed to stay. The Migrants Rights Centre and the General President of SIPTU Jack O’Connor also made representations on behalf of the family. Among several public representatives at national and local level who expressed concern at the family’s plight were TD Labour Willie Penrose, Fine Gael TD Leo Varadkar and Sinn Fein TD Martin Ferris. Today John Recto thanked all his friends in Naas and the TEEU who had stood by him over the past six months, public representatives and all those who had signed the TEEU petition or contacted the Government on his behalf.