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03/11/2015
Planned Bus And Rail Strike Expected To Go Ahead
A planned bus and rail strike is expected to go ahead this Friday, 06 November.
The strike action follows a pay dispute over past productivity movements.
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)
The strike action follows a pay dispute over past productivity movements.
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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