Industrial Action
# industrial-action - Tuesday 21 May, 2013
Water treatment plant workers down tools
Work stopped at Shanganagh Waste Water Treatment Plant over staff demands for fair pay.
# industrial-action - Saturday 18 May, 2013
Teachers ‘know pay negotiations will end up in compromise’
The General Secretary of the INTO said today that two issues of note were higher pay and the supervision allowance.
# industrial-action - Friday 17 May, 2013
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# industrial-action - Thursday 16 May, 2013
Bus Éireann services to operate as normal today
A minimum of 24 hours notice will be given for any industrial action, unions officials have said.
# industrial-action - Tuesday 14 May, 2013
Suspended Bus Éireann strike has already cost company €500,000
A 48-hour break in industrial action is currently underway, following a decision made last night after intervention from the Labour Relations Commission.
# industrial-action - Monday 13 May, 2013
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‘Vast majority’ of Bus Éireann services cancelled today due to strike
Bus Éireann says it anticipates that school transport services will operate as normal today but has advised parents to check services ahead of time.
# industrial-action - Sunday 12 May, 2013
Poll: Are Bus Éireann workers right to go on strike?
Management says cost-cutting measures are necessary but unions say their members will be thousands of euro worse off as a result of the changes. What do you think?
Here are the Bus Éireann services cancelled because of strike action
The bus company has released a list of the services which are not operating today due to the strike action being taken by workers over €5 million of cost-cutting measures.
# industrial-action - Thursday 9 May, 2013
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# industrial-action - Wednesday 8 May, 2013
Bus Éireann warns: bring in pay cuts or we could end up breaking the law
A spokesperson for Bus Éireann said the company’s future is at risk if it can’t bring in major changes to pay and conditions for employees.
# industrial-action - Sunday 5 May, 2013
It’s off: Strike deferred at Dublin water plant
SIPTU members at the Shanganagh plant said employers didn’t recognise the trade union – but the plant management rejected the claim.
# industrial-action - Saturday 4 May, 2013
Strike at Dublin water plant to begin on Tuesday
“We cannot believe that our employers are refusing to recognise our union – it’s 2013, not 1913″.
# industrial-action - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
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# industrial-action - Monday 22 April, 2013
Strike action sees Lufthansa flights cancelled across Europe
Dozens of flights to and from Ireland and the UK have been affected, with Frankfurt, Munich, Dusseldorf and Hamburg airports all targeted by the strikes.
# industrial-action - Friday 19 April, 2013
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Emergency services association warns of industrial action
The Irish Fire and Emergency Services Association has warned that it will ballot for industrial action if government attempts to introduce legislation following the rejection of Croke Park II.
# industrial-action - Thursday 18 April, 2013
Nurses warn of industrial action if government legislates for pay cuts
The Psychiatric Nurses Association has called on other public sector unions to threaten a ballot on industrial action if the government legislates to cut pay.
# industrial-action - Thursday 4 April, 2013
Vita Cortex workers meet with Noam Chomsky in Cork
During their protest last year, Chomsky send workers messages of support commending them for their “courageous and honourable actions”
# industrial-action - Wednesday 6 March, 2013
Gardaà to show leniency at checkpoints under new work-to-rule measures
The new measures will also see gardaà refusing to volunteer for overtime on St Patrick’s Day.
# industrial-action - Sunday 3 March, 2013
‘I have given as much as I can’ – garda speaks out against pay cuts
The garda source said many colleagues have difficulties with the potential impact of industrial action but they feel they are backed into a corner.
Varadkar: No special pay deals for unions who walked out of talks
The transport minister says unions who left the Croke Park 2 talks left members “high and dry” and cannot get concessions.
# industrial-action - Saturday 2 March, 2013
# industrial-action - Wednesday 20 February, 2013
Gardaà bring bank statements to Commissioner meeting to highlight cuts
Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan said after the meeting he hopes nothing will be said or done to interfere with the public’s support.
# industrial-action - Sunday 17 February, 2013
Emergency workers set for national rally on pay cuts
The 24/7 Frontline Alliance represents gardaÃ, healthcare workers, prison officers, firefighters and paramedics.
# industrial-action - Saturday 16 February, 2013
Column: Industrial action by gardaà is unacceptable – and here’s why
Cuts to garda pay and conditions are shameful and short-sighted – but officers have a civic duty that overrides any option of industrial action, writes Aaron McKenna.
# industrial-action - Thursday 14 February, 2013
Garda body passes motion of no confidence in Shatter
Martin Callinan has arranged to meet with the Garda Representative Association as it calls for solidarity against pay cuts.
# industrial-action - Wednesday 13 February, 2013
GRA national executive meeting to ‘consider all options’ following votes for industrial action
The GRA said concerns raised in recent meetings of garda divisions across the country will be brought before the national executive.
# industrial-action - Tuesday 12 February, 2013
Poll: Would you support a garda ‘blue flu’?
More Gardaà have voted in favour of industrial action as they face pay reforms.
# industrial-action - Saturday 9 February, 2013
Gardaà across the country voting in favour of industrial action Exclusive
Following a meeting in Cork City earlier this week, gardaà in other divisions have been voting on a potential ‘blue flu’ as well as motions of no confidence in Minister Shatter and Commissioner Callinan.
# industrial-action - Thursday 7 February, 2013
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SIPTU retained firefighters set to ballot for industrial action
The news comes a day after full-time firefighters also decided to ballot.
# industrial-action - Wednesday 6 February, 2013
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SIPTU firefighters set to ballot for industrial action
SIPTU said new proposals to cut the numbers responding to incidents will put firefighters in danger and claim lives.
Gardaà in Cork City may opt for ‘blue flu’
Last night gardaà in Cork City voted unanimously to pass a motion calling for industrial action over proposed cuts to pay and allowances.
# industrial-action - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
Cork City gardai vote in favour of industrial action Exclusive
Motion for action over proposed pay cuts passed unanimously at Cork City Garda division meeting this evening.
Gardaà “won’t be sitting idly by” if pay cuts are proposed
The Garda Representative Association did not enter negotiations on the Croke Park Extensions – but if cuts are proposed, it may encourage members to begin industrial action.
# industrial-action - Tuesday 22 January, 2013
The 5 at 5: Tuesday
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