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05/11/2015
Irish Rail Talks Continue
Management from Irish Rail and trade unions are to continue discussions at the Workplace Relations Commission to try to avoid strike action on Friday, 06 November.
It follows a pay dispute over past productivity movements.
If the strike is to go ahead, thousands of commuters are expected to face travel disruption from 6am to 9pm on Friday.
The chairman of the National Bus and Rail Union, Dermot O'Leary, said in a letter to Irish Rail: "Writing directly to staff in this fashion, designed as it is, to undermine the Trade Unions, who are after all directly representing their members is counter – productive and will not get us one jot closer to a resolution of this dispute, our members are furious at this intervention and see it as an insult to a workforce that have fully cooperated in improving the Rail Network in this Country over the last decade, the only reasonable way of getting a resolution here is for all stakeholders to fully engage on all of the issues, attempting to disenfranchise workers representatives is bringing a distasteful element to this dispute."
(CD/LM)
It follows a pay dispute over past productivity movements.
If the strike is to go ahead, thousands of commuters are expected to face travel disruption from 6am to 9pm on Friday.
The chairman of the National Bus and Rail Union, Dermot O'Leary, said in a letter to Irish Rail: "Writing directly to staff in this fashion, designed as it is, to undermine the Trade Unions, who are after all directly representing their members is counter – productive and will not get us one jot closer to a resolution of this dispute, our members are furious at this intervention and see it as an insult to a workforce that have fully cooperated in improving the Rail Network in this Country over the last decade, the only reasonable way of getting a resolution here is for all stakeholders to fully engage on all of the issues, attempting to disenfranchise workers representatives is bringing a distasteful element to this dispute."
(CD/LM)
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