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Greyhound dispute could be set to end after 14-week lockout

A new deal has been agreed between representatives on both sides and now awaits a vote from workers.

Updated 8.15pm

IT APPEARS THAT the 14-week lockout of Greyhound workers could come to end tomorrow after new negotiations with management.

Workers confirmed yesterday that they await a new proposal to be put to them on Monday. If the new deal is accepted it will bring a end to the action being taken by staff.

The deal has been agreed upon by representatives on both sides and will face a ballot of the workers tomorrow morning at 11.30am in Liberty Hall.

Speaking as a representative, locked out Greyhound worker Ray Reilly said:

Despite serious concerns and in the interest of finding a resolution, we put our trust into meeting [Executive Director Michael] Buckely half way. We wanted to go into serious negotiations that had a real potential to bring an end to this dispute…We have made sacrifices to get to this point and believe we have accepted more than could reasonably be expected of any worker.

The dispute arose over proposed cuts to worker’s salaries by Greyhound management of 35% pay cut.

The company contended that this would have still left workers earning more than the industry average and that their cost base was unsustainable. 

Some Greyhound workers and their supporters were at the High Court earlier this month for action they had taken to prevent blocking Greyhound trucks after an injunction had been issued not to do so.

First published 11.34am

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    Mute Marky mark
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    Sep 21st 2014, 11:44 AM

    It’s a strike. Only union spin trying to call it a lockout.

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    Mute youknowimright
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    Sep 21st 2014, 12:06 PM

    True, I have yet to be shown anything to suggest workers were locked out.

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    Mute Hairy lemon
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    Sep 22nd 2014, 7:53 AM

    Lockout me hole. Its a strike pure and simple, and an ill advised one at that. Go back to work lads. Chalk this one down to experience.

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    Mute Aideen Reilly
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    Sep 21st 2014, 12:41 PM

    Very misleading headline its a strike not a lockout, those workers are free to return whenever they wish, and blocking trucks and intimidating other workers

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    Mute Mike O'Sullivan
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    Sep 21st 2014, 1:33 PM

    Free to return minus 35% of their wages, otherwise their employers won’t let them enter the workplace.

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    Mute No Mauvaise Foi
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    Sep 21st 2014, 12:24 PM

    I’m so glad to hear this and hopefully it is truly agreeable to the workers. I would hate to hear they capitulated to the bullyboy tactics. This slow erosion of workers rights and pay can happen to any and all of us. We should be standing in solidarity instead of doing what the rich and powerful want us to do: attacking the workers.

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    Mute Richard McCarthy
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    Sep 21st 2014, 1:28 PM

    Clowns on the left of me, jokers to the right,this kind of union/employer mullarky is so last century and regardless of the outcome we will continue to deliver our own waste and reycles at the centre which we have done for years for years at far less cost and with none of the hassle.

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    Sep 21st 2014, 2:33 PM

    Lockout or Strike no one should cross the picket.

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    Mute Keith Grant
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    Sep 21st 2014, 2:25 PM

    Its a strike, not a lockout. Very poor journalism if you can’t get the most basic fact of a story correct

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    Mute Marcus Stride
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    Sep 21st 2014, 6:53 PM

    As long as they don’t come back to work. My bins have never been collected more efficiently since they have been out on strike.

    Can’t really see how they will. They must be roundly hated by their fellow employees for all the verbal and physical abuse.

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    Mute birdseye
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    Sep 21st 2014, 8:20 PM

    Overpaid

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    Mute Éire Calling
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    Sep 21st 2014, 10:45 PM

    How many of the scabs who’ve crossed the picket line are the cheap foreign labour units imported by the regime and given the contumelious title of the “New Irish”? Ah, the “New Irish”, they mean it quite literally; they are to be our replacement. We are to them the old, the obsolete Irish.

    You may all jeer now because it’s binmen who are affected at this moment in time. But as it moves up the scale—which it will—you won’t be laughing then.

    It’s worth noting also that it’s the unions who are some of the most ardent supporters of the importation of immigrant labour, which serves only to drive down pay and conditions for Irish workers. Remember Irish Ferries?

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    Sep 21st 2014, 12:00 PM

    About time.

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    Sep 21st 2014, 7:57 PM

    Did they trash out an agreement….

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    Mute Juan Venegas
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    Sep 22nd 2014, 9:58 AM

    good to see that this feud between a small percentage of Greyhound workers and the company will come to an end. I hope they get their wages reduced as much as possibly to be on the line with their other colleagues at Greyhound. Unionised leeches, parasites. I work hard my arse. We need a Michael O’Leary in every unionised company. People expected to be overpaid for emptying the bins. This is your own fault, if you want more money, STUDY, Change careers, be ambitious, specially if you have a family. Why should an underachieving Bin man get paid the same as someone who went to college?

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    Sep 22nd 2014, 1:41 AM

    Where are the scabs from?

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