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19/04/2016
Workers Praised For Success With Tesco Management
SIPTU the union has praised the organisation of it's members at Tesco for succeeding in "forcing management to begin improving its offer to staff whose contracts are to be changed".
SIPTU Sector Organiser, Teresa Hannick, said: "The announcement by Tesco, that it is now offering improved voluntary redundancy terms to long-term staff and that work which becomes available due to this scheme will be given to existing part time staff, is a step in the right direction.
It is understood that Tesco has also accepted SIPTU's call to attend a meeting at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) to discuss the other issues in dispute, which include an adequate package for those long-term staff who wish to continue in their posts, is welcomed even if it was a long time coming.
"That the company has begun to move into a position of treating its workers with respect and negotiating any changes to their conditions of employment is completely due to the united front SIPTU members in the company have shown in recent weeks," Ms Hannick added.
"At the beginning of this week, SIPTU members served notice of industrial action on the company. This display of worker unity would seem to have concentrated the minds of the Tesco management team."
(MH)
SIPTU Sector Organiser, Teresa Hannick, said: "The announcement by Tesco, that it is now offering improved voluntary redundancy terms to long-term staff and that work which becomes available due to this scheme will be given to existing part time staff, is a step in the right direction.
It is understood that Tesco has also accepted SIPTU's call to attend a meeting at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) to discuss the other issues in dispute, which include an adequate package for those long-term staff who wish to continue in their posts, is welcomed even if it was a long time coming.
"That the company has begun to move into a position of treating its workers with respect and negotiating any changes to their conditions of employment is completely due to the united front SIPTU members in the company have shown in recent weeks," Ms Hannick added.
"At the beginning of this week, SIPTU members served notice of industrial action on the company. This display of worker unity would seem to have concentrated the minds of the Tesco management team."
(MH)
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