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Sinn Féin Deputy Peadar Tóibín threatened to hold up the Workplace Relations Bill 2014 in respect of the dispute at Kishogue, Lucan. The Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Committee are meeting this afternoon to make amendments to the existing legislation.

Bricklayers in Kishogue were reportedly being paid less than €5 per hour.

There are numerous amendments proposed in the Bill and if the deputy so wishes he can call a vote on each amendment which will take up to eight minutes per vote.

Hero or zero?

YOU decide.

Previously: Crane Of Defiance

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[Cars clamped in Stepaside, Dublin last December]

Breakingnews.ie reports:

SIPTU workers at Dublin Street Parking Services have been waiting since 2011 for a 2.5% wage rise and will vote today to decide if they should take industrial action to force management to pay. It is now likely that a strike will go ahead and SIPTU Organiser, John King, says the pay rise may seem small but it’s the principal that counts.

Dublin clampers may strike over unpaid pay rise (Breakingnews.ie)

Previously: Clamptrap

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Bus Éireann spokesman Andrew McLindon said the company was in a difficult financial situation and the industrial dispute has cost it “effectively €500,000 at a time when we’re already losing approximately €500,000 a month so time is of the essence on this”

 

That’ll learn them.

 

Transport minister hopeful of settlement in Bus Éireann dispue (RTE)

Via Artist ~ Life

Perhaps not…

Plans for industrial action at Aer Lingus from next Monday remained in place last night.

The planned stoppage had appeared likely to be suspended following the intervention of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (Ictu) and employers’ body Ibec last Friday. Both organisations had proposed a new talks process in an effort to resolve a dispute over how to deal with a €748 million deficit in the pension scheme that covers workers at the airline and the Dublin Airport Authority.

However, Siptu said that following a meeting yesterday, its shop stewards at Aer Lingus had declined to withdraw strike notice pending clarification on a number of issues.

Fresh attempts to avert Aer Lingus strike (Martin Wall, Irish Times)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

Bord na Móna workers picket outside the company’s head office this afternoon. Siptu say over 1,200 of their members are on strike over what they call a “bid to introduce performance-related elements” into [the National Wage] agreement.

Strike Action Under Way At Bord na Móna in Dispute Over Pay (RTE)

(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)