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NINE WORKERS AT the Central Bank of Ireland’s mint facility in Dublin have embarked on a work to rule – and they have served notice of a full strike action for next month.
The maintenance staff, who work at the mint in Sandyford, south Dublin, have given notice of their intention to strike following their rejection of Workplace Relation Commission recommendations last Friday.
The nine workers in question, who are electrical and mechanical workers, are responsible for the maintenance and operation of the machines that print and mint Ireland’s money.
The strike action, which is slated to take place on Monday and Tuesday 11 and 12 July, is not related to actual pay claims, but rather to a “refusal to engage” regarding pay negotiations.
The nine workers are on work to rule as of today. In essence, that will mean no overtime being worked, no pagers being carried, and no “flexibility” being employed as regards their roles.
Willie Quigley, representative with Unite, the workers’ union, outlined the issues that have brought about the strike to TheJournal.ie.
“There has been a lack of promotional opportunities, there’s a differential of 7% in wages between those just starting and those who have worked longer service. There’s also a harmonisation issue as regards technician’s rates,” Quigley said.
All of this goes back as far as July last year. We haven’t got down to making any claims as yet though.
Right now the bank itself is trying to get everything into the Labour Court.
“The Central Bank of Ireland confirms that it has been advised of proposed industrial action by nine staff who work in the Bank’s Sandyford site, represented by the TEEU and Unite trade unions,” a Central Bank spokesperson said.
The Central Bank is disappointed that sensible and workable proposals developed by the Workplace Relations Commission were rejected by the TEEU and Unite. The Bank has reiterated its call for suspension of industrial action while the matter is referred to the Labour Court.
The Sandyford mint, otherwise known as the currency centre, was built in the late 1970s and first opened for business in 1978.
It’s believed that in the region of 80 employees work at the site.
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Its all about getting people hooked into one of the most intrusive operating systems that ever came out of Microsoft and it certainly ties in with TTIP and the recently passed CISA Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.
There is no such thing as a free lunch and more so from Bill Gates.
Microsoft are really pushing this. Annoying pop ups throughout the day offering free ‘upgrade’.
Anyone I’ve spoken to about Windows 10 tell me ‘don’t get it – it’s crap’.
Makes me suspicious when something is promoted to such an extent.
Time will tell.
I have it and I find it completely fine. there are some privacy steps that are easily applied and after that I’m completely comfortable with it.
Not crap but far from perfect yet. Using it daily for work and is mainly fine. Some extremely basic issues such as sees an SD card, asks if you want to import photos, say yes and it asks from where as Photos can’t see it. You can still copy and paste them but it’s very strange. HyperV services need restarting every morning after a clean reboot. These are minor and I am sure will get resolved soon enough.
Microsoft needs to get people off old versions as otherwise advertising all manner of security enhancements and features is pointless when all versions are lumped under the same title of Windows and they get slagged every time someone finds some issue in XP etc
Tommy , you can turn off the reminder pop-ups by uninstalling update # KB3035583.
My son upgraded my Windows 7 to 10 on the laptop (admittedly about 3 years old) and managed to delete the roll back option too. It was so slow I gave up and wiped it and put Linux on. Much faster and seemingly more stable too.
Well i love Windows 10, I’ve used all versions, if you are unhappy with he data they take here are a few solutions. http://bgr.com/2015/08/14/windows-10-spying-prevention-privacy-tools/
There some serious bugs still. One is the “Fatal_power_error” which crashes systems. Apparently a hibernation issue that kicks in.
Installed it but forced to go back to Win7 on a dual boot as default system.
Hopefully the expected November major update can help resolve some of these issues.
Wins 10 does still have some issues that need to be addressed, normal or new users will or may find it difficult to navigate around. As for the upgrades for users that have older PC’s/Laptops they may have issues finding drivers that support Wins 10, so sound cards, VGA drivers etc are but just 2.
For these users if they have wins 7 are are looking for the chance to try something new/stable and Free try Linux Mint http://www.linuxmint.com/start/rafaela/ this has a wins feel about it and the user does not have to be totally savvy to use it.
This distro (linux Mint) allows to create a dual boot when installing it so you can still have your wins 7 and you can choose which operating system (OS) you wish to boot into at startup.
It installs almost all the drivers required on both new and older machines, installing software is very easy and best of all 99% of the software is Free.
There always a Linux troll lurking around.
It is so slow with Chrome or Mozilla and I am certain that is deliberate to make you use the Windows search engine. I could not accept that on rain opal, but hey, who am I , you are very odd these days if you are a sheep !
it also can ruin your hard drive when downloaded. mine corrupted within hours after installing, almost €200 for a new one
Still awaiting it even though I requested it back in July!!
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