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NEW FIGURES RELEASED by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) have put recent industrial disputes into sharp focus.
Between July and September this year, three disputes involving 3,362 workers led to 14,270 days of work lost due to industrial action.
This compares to 5,115 days lost between January and March and 1,127 days lost between April and June.
The primary cause of this was the strike by Dublin Bus drivers, which was eventually resolved after a new pay deal was offered.
The vast majority of these lost work days (14,220) were in the transport sector, while 50 workers involved in public administration and defence lost a day’s work each. During the same months last year, not one day was lost due to industrial action.
The number of working days lost was the highest since the start of 2015, when around 27,588 secondary school teachers went on strike.
After Gardaí were offered more favourable terms following the threat of industrial action, many public unions are also seeking better terms for their workers.
This morning, the president of Siptu said on Morning Ireland that the trade union was preparing to ballot 60,000 members for industrial action today.
During Leaders’ Questions in the Dáil yesterday, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams accused the Government of “refusing to engage the problem” of public sector pay, and added that the issue “wasn’t going away.”
You can read the CSO’s latest stats on industrial relations here.
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I can imagine the scene in the prison canteen “what you in for?” Ara no tv licence, what about you? “Smokin at work” as the garlic importer walks in and there’s a hushed silence at his notoriety! Meanwhile the corrupt bankers are having the lols on the golf course!!
Dont forget the rapists and hit and runners and robbers and violent assaulters that are laughing at home with their suspended sentences
It’d be funny if it wasn’t true
That made me lol at my desk!
You are so right ! Ya have to have a laugh cause if ya don’t you’ll just cry all the time ! Life is so hard these days
Joan – Not if you are a career doler. Life is pretty sweet then
They all smoke in the prison canteen. Its a joke
True too Sargon
Number of dole monkeys convicted for smoking on the bus, train, luas etc… equal zero.
Living on the dole and having to listen to ignoramuses who come out with stuff like that is probably punishment enough for them.
“Non compliant smoking shelters” in that they are too comfortable for the shunned smokers of this world….
+1
When they finish with smokers they’ll go after something else. Obesity is a big one now so perhaps they’ll only allow overweight people to sit on exercise bikes, and we’ll bring in a fat tax (which will of course will hit the less well off disproportionately)
On and on it goes until eventually – everyone has a nanny.
2/3 of the offences listed were in Co. Donegal.
1/3 of the offences listed were not in Donegal.
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