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RANK AND FILE gardaí have voted by a large margin to accept the pay deal recommended by the Labour Court to avert industrial action.
There had been some speculation ahead of the result over whether members of the Garda Representative Association (GRA) would accept the deal on the table. However, the result released this evening shows that 75.2% of GRA members voted to accept the recommendations with 24.8% voting against. The turnout was 69%.
The Central Executive Committee of the GRA will meet tomorrow morning to discuss the implications of the outcome.
The action means that any further industrial action by rank-and-file gardaí looks unlikely to take place.
Early last month, the GRA and the AGSI – which represents garda sergeants and inspectors – called off a series of strikes after the Labour Court put together the deal on pay and conditions.
The main points of the Labour Court recommendations are:
The exact monetary gain will vary for each garda, but the GRA has estimated that most gardaí will gain between €3,900 and €8640. Newest recruits will get bump in their salaries of at least €7,000.
However, the deal has the biggest effect on officers who work nights, weekends, and significant amounts of overtime, as it centres mainly on an increase in overtime payments and allowances.
The deal will also see gardaí working up to 60 additional hours a year – 15 of those without pay.
Reporting by Michelle Hennessy
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He’ll be out by the weekend.Otherwise the cartel will cause havoc.
@Kieran Byrne: did he really have much of a life choice though in fairness. Not condoning what he did but his life was kinda laid out for him.
Washington accuses the cartel of exploiting the opioid epidemic and introducing fentanyl yet they created the market with a series of laws making it near impossible for doctors to prescribe opioids. The rug was pulled from chronic pain patients and anyone with a prescription opioid addiction overnight. In the years following, the black market predictably exploded and just as predictably, so have the deaths which continue to rise year on year at a staggering rate. This is what happens when we create unregulated markets for criminals gangs to run and profit from. At some point we’re going to have to grow up and accept that the war on drugs is a failure on every conceivable level. Drugs won and huge numbers are dying while we wait for politicians to catch up. It’s obscene and it’s criminal.
@Declan Doherty: if you have not seen it, watch the Tv series ‘dopesick’ starring Michael Keaton. It is very good drama about opioid addiction
@James Beattie: Been meaning to watch it. Is it on Netflix?
This war on drugs is lost……..let’s have limited legitimacy and put this cartels out a business..over to you joe,America are the main buyers legalisation has worked when tried.something has to be done to stop the 100,000 + death’s
Arrest the rich who are using and you’ll stop the flow
@Paul Gorry: what do you mean, arrest the middle class? Sounds like the new order put forth by Xi
@Ian James Burgess, it would cost too much. I see Prince Harry admitted taking it, will he be arrested or locked up.
@Tomaldo: nope, he’ll be applauded as the refreshing take on monarchy, even though we know he essentially supported criminals, yes folks everytime you buy cocaine I hate to tell you… But….
Getting murdered for not singing at The Mouses wedding!!!! What would he do to Daniel O’Donnell ?
@Pete O’Reilly: ask him to fix his boiler
@kevin mc cormack: Daniel is not gas certified Kevin. Me granny only told me yesterday.
@SPQH, then why not change the law?
@Stephen Walshe, then he’ll be replaced by another smelly rat
Smelly little rat got caught he should be hung in public.
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