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Bord na Móna staff to strike over pay proposals

A majority of staff voted last week to reject a pay deal agreed between trade unions and management.

UP TO 1,500 staff at Bord na Móna are today taking part in a one-day strike action, after rejecting a pay deal agreed between staff unions and management.

The work stoppage, organised by SIPTU, is in protest at plans to introduce what the union described as ‘performance-related elements’ into their pay deals.

All employees involved in milled peat production are involved in the stoppage, with pickets being placed.

The strike comes after a majority of the company’s 2,000 workers voted last week against a pay deal that would have seen employees given a €1,000 lump sum as well as a pay increase of 3.5 per cent.

SIPTU organiser Oliver MacDonagh said workers had been reluctant to accept the performance-related elements of the pay agreement, and also had concerns that the money offered in the dispute would not be pensionable.

Workers had rejected the deal despite SIPTU warnings that they were unlikely to be presented with a better alternative.

They had also claimed to be due a 3.5 per cent pay increase under the Towards 2016 social partnership deal, though Bord na Móna said making the payments would require other spending cuts and could put jobs at risk.

Staff had already agreed a one-day strike to be held in April, but that action was deferred when unions and management began the talks that led to the now-rejected deal.

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    Mute Joe blogs
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    Mar 16th 2016, 2:44 PM

    The ra done it better

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    Mar 16th 2016, 3:02 PM

    Did not done. Shinner are not usually well educated.

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    Mar 16th 2016, 3:08 PM

    Err, I think you forgot an apostrophe between Did and Not Leo,
    Oh the Irony, LOL

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    Mar 16th 2016, 3:09 PM

    Whoops! I meant a Comma,
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    Mar 16th 2016, 3:15 PM

    There’s nothing more ignorant than correcting someone’s grammer..

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    Mar 16th 2016, 3:34 PM

    Cosmo,

    It’s ‘grammar’.

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    Mute Leo Lowe
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    Mar 16th 2016, 3:36 PM

    Mother, the initial letter in comma should be lower case.

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    Mar 16th 2016, 9:50 PM

    Also, spelling is not grammar you simpleton Cosmo.

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    Mar 16th 2016, 2:50 PM

    Up like a bird and over the city

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    Mar 16th 2016, 2:52 PM

    3 men are missing, I heard the warden say.

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    Mar 16th 2016, 4:15 PM

    Copycats…..

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    Mar 16th 2016, 2:50 PM

    Video needs that Mission Impossible theme.

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    Mar 16th 2016, 3:24 PM

    CLOSE THE GATES

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    Mar 16th 2016, 2:43 PM

    The Canadians should be ashamed of themselves for letting this occur. Thankfully their country is a lot more beautiful than the dump we live in so I won’t get too mad at them

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    Mar 16th 2016, 2:55 PM

    Have you even been to Canada?

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    Mar 16th 2016, 2:57 PM

    Good man for forgiving them Gary, I’m sure they were very worried there for a minute.

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    Mar 16th 2016, 5:40 PM

    No, I don’t think he has but he’s just back from a quick holiday to Rome.
    It’s amazing how us tax paying fools can let Gary jet around on his well funded state pension and come on here and call our country a dump. Stop his pension for 6 months and that will cure his cough.

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    Mar 16th 2016, 6:37 PM

    @Gary O’neill……..Funny! Never heard a Canadian note anything like you say. Only your BS I would say.

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    Mar 16th 2016, 3:48 PM

    Its happened here a few times ….

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    Mar 16th 2016, 3:27 PM

    Sound like something from the video game GTA

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    Mar 16th 2016, 3:18 PM

    Good man Gary insult the country that’s paying your over generous teacher pension, bet you love the place when you use your bank card.

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    Mar 17th 2016, 1:04 AM

    Done in mountjoy first

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