15/04/2013

Top Civil Servants Refuse To Support Proposed New Agreement

Higher civil servants have rejected the proposed new Croke Park Agreement.

Members of the Association of Higher Civil and Public Servants voted against the agreement, with 85% refusing to support the agreement.

However members of BATU voted in favour of the deal.

Members from the Operative Plasterers and Allied Trade Society of Ireland (OPATSI) also backed the deal.

The Teachers’ Union of Ireland, the Medical Laboratory Scientists Association and the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union have already rejected the deal.

(CD)

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