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07/09/2016
Dublin Bus Strike To Go-Ahead
Trade union SIPTU has said there has been no engagement with the Department of Transport or Dublin Bus management, apart from a one-hour meeting, over a pay dispute.
The dispute began after Dublin Bus unions rejected a Labour Court recommendation of a general 8.25% pay award for all its 3,364 employees over three years without productivity changes.
However, workers are expected to go-head with a 48-hour strike tomorrow, 07 September.
SIPTU Transport, Energy, Aviation and Construction Division Organiser, Owen Reidy, said: "Unless the approach of management and the officials at the Department of Transport changes radically, Dublin Bus would seem to be set for a long and damaging period of industrial strife."
SIPTU Organiser, John Murphy, said: "Dublin Bus returned to profitability in 2014, passenger numbers are up, revenue is up, fares are up but pay has remained stagnant. However, over the last six years the state subvention has been reduced by 24%. Even worse is the situation whereby €2 million of the profits earned by Dublin Bus was taken last year by the National Transport Authority rather than reinvested in the company. This sum could have gone some way towards meeting the Dublin Bus workers' pay claim.
"By their actions the Department and management would seem to be intent on sleep walking into a prolonged dispute which has the potential to create chaos for the travelling public and do long term damage to the company."
(CD/LM)
The dispute began after Dublin Bus unions rejected a Labour Court recommendation of a general 8.25% pay award for all its 3,364 employees over three years without productivity changes.
However, workers are expected to go-head with a 48-hour strike tomorrow, 07 September.
SIPTU Transport, Energy, Aviation and Construction Division Organiser, Owen Reidy, said: "Unless the approach of management and the officials at the Department of Transport changes radically, Dublin Bus would seem to be set for a long and damaging period of industrial strife."
SIPTU Organiser, John Murphy, said: "Dublin Bus returned to profitability in 2014, passenger numbers are up, revenue is up, fares are up but pay has remained stagnant. However, over the last six years the state subvention has been reduced by 24%. Even worse is the situation whereby €2 million of the profits earned by Dublin Bus was taken last year by the National Transport Authority rather than reinvested in the company. This sum could have gone some way towards meeting the Dublin Bus workers' pay claim.
"By their actions the Department and management would seem to be intent on sleep walking into a prolonged dispute which has the potential to create chaos for the travelling public and do long term damage to the company."
(CD/LM)
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