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BUS ÉIREANN WORKERS from the Siptu and Unite trade unions have voted to accept Labour Court recommendations aimed at resolving a long running dispute in the company.
Bus Éireann has been in turmoil in recent months as company management desperately tried to shore up losses at the State-run bus service. Management had warned that the company could be insolvent by the summer.
Widespread changes to employees’ pay and conditions resulted in a strike which lasted three weeks and shut down the bus service across the country. The strike was suspended to allow for balloting on the Labour Court recommendations.
Siptu workers voted by a close margin (53.4% to 46.6%) in favour of the recommendations, with 87% of members voting.
National Bus and Rail Union (NBRU) workers are still being balloted, with the results expected next week.
Commenting on the ballot, Siptu sector organiser Willie Noone said accepting the recommendations was a “pragmatic” decision by workers, as they would have “huge cultural, structural and financial implications” for all the staff.
“Our union will fully expect the company to honour fully those aspects of the recommendation which affect workers’ conditions in a positive way,” he said.
Siptu representatives will also ensure that the recommendation is not used as an avenue to extract other cuts which are not included in it.
He said any need to involve school bus drivers or Dublin Bus or Irish Rail workers in the industrial action “has now abated”.
Workers ware angry with the company and with transport minister Shane Ross, Noone added.
Unite’s Willie Quigley said that workers may have felt that they had “no option but to accept highly unpalatable measures”.
“Our members are picking up the tab for a financial crisis not of their making,” said Quigley.
Now, the focus must be on mapping a sustainable road forward for Ireland’s public transport system in general and Bus Éireann in particular.
Both Quigley and Noone said their unions would take part in a stakeholder forum to deal with issues that arose in the dispute.
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Who buys counterfeit DVDs or CDs anymore?
People that have crap broadband.
Who buys counterfeit stethoscopes?! Pictured to the right in the article.
Quacks.
No counterfeit Government seized?
Doctor Nick Riviera
Doctors probably, it’s not just simple medical equipment like that either, things like dentists tools and even X-ray machines are made by counterfeiters. The latter giving hundreds of times more radiation than the proper machine.
Sure haven’t we got counterfeit government? What’s new?
Yawn
Yer ma is counterfeit.
There’s counterfeit condoms (Durex) on the streets which, while sounding funny, is very worrying.
Apparently porous & lubricated with vegetable oil.
You would have to be hard up to have to resort to buying those.
How many of these goods were stolen back from revenue by the criminals like what happen in Dundalk sat night.
what happened in dundalk ?
Well according to rte news laundered diesel was seized during the week. Apparently the criminal broke in an army barracks where it was being stored and stole the tanker back with all the diesel still on board
Took some balls to carry this out, just read it on the news.
dundalk is a great place to live ….you gotta love Da-town :)
That is a complete and utter joke. After all that effort?
must be worth a lot of Doe , otherwise they wouldn’t have bothered going to the hassle of robbing it back ,
from a defence forces barracks(they broke down the get , walked in took the truck and drove out) ………… says alot about the defence forces really
Did they not hop the wall, start the lorry and then drive through the gate? Hate to be the soldiers on security detail when this happened?
Geard.. Ever heard of ‘back-handers? Or , turn a blind eye !!
Martin, I know the barracks well. There’s CCTV covering the ground. They didn’t just walk in the front gate!
I’m just waiting for this picture to appear in my timeline with “share this photo to be in with a chance of winning all these prizes”
Every thing is made in China……..Apart from babies, they’re made in the VaChina
I sell counterfeit counterfeits of 90′s boy band calendars. I’m doing PRETTY good.
The Chinese; a great bunch of lads.
I’ve heard some people report that legitimate Chinese manufactured mobile phones are being seized as counterfeit goods.
Is Alan shatter’s Rolex there too??
I bought a Nokia phone once from a shop . Only after i got home did i notice the the name was spelled different and was a peace of crap. Made in China
Everything is made in China now
the more the ordinary people get ripped off buy the gov ,
the more they will rely on the black market .
What happened to my comment?
Nothing, there it is ^
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