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MEMBERS OF THE engineering union Connect will tomorrow begin strike action over a dispute concerning redundancy payments in Enerveo after the street lighting company withdrew its operations from Ireland.
In March, energy corporation SEE reacquired Enerveo from the German asset management firm Aurelius after the company struggled to maintain its operations as an independent entity.
Enerveo, in June, notified multiple local authorities in Ireland that it would not be renewing its maintenance contracts for public lighting and was withdrawing from the Irish market – leaving many at risk of redundancy.
According to Connect General Secretary, Paddy Kavanagh the company is “refusing to provide its workforce with redundancy payments in line with those previously provided in the sector”.
Enerveo held contracts for public lighting maintenance in Dublin City Council, Fingal, Cork, Limerick, Donegal, Cavan, Monaghan, Louth, Tipperary and in many other areas of the country.
It will not be renewing these contracts and some will conclude later this summer.
Connect members last month voted in favour of strike action but resumed talks between the workforce and the company resumed, stalling any industrial action.
According to Connect, these talks have since broken down and members will now commence their indefinite strike tomorrow morning.
Kavanagh said union members will be conducting pickets at Enerveo depots, local authorities and at the sites of some construction projects.
“Their industrial action will continue until the company respects their right to be paid redundancy in line with that previously paid in the sector,” he added.
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Is Michael Healy-Ray really that stupid ,,,,, Looks like the apple didn’t fall too far from the tree !!!!!
yes they are , and the very ones, that has there bread buttered by him , i heard , that these guys run, co, Kerry ,if your not with, them your out, and stay out ?. local Mafioso, i here say .big fish in small ponds .
How on earth did that amadan Healy Rae get elected , are people in constituency really that thick????
maybe we could put the dog into the dail instead of micheal.
As a farmer said to me ‘why should I indicate ,sure everybody knows where I’m going .’ The rural attitude to visitors/tourists is that they should deposit their money at the county boundary and not annoy the natives with demands for service, unspoilt countryside etc. It takes a Healy-Rae to actually come out and say this ; tell us more Michael.
Michael Healy Rae your ignorance knows absolutely no bounds!!
Michael Healy Rae is supported by the plain people of Kerry – crap goes in, crap comes out.
It’s bloody obvious Micheal Healy Rae is a man that can smell money a mile away. He must be doing a reality tv show soon and needs the cash for the phone and text votes. This is the Td who cut the grass of developers houses in my estate only last summer after he was elected. He even had his ‘vote no1′ stickers still on his van with his picture so there was no denying it was him. My ghost estate is in north cork so he drove a bit from Kerry to help the developer who is living it up in the uk!
I live in the country, and I know my way around. I have to say, country driving, particularly people over a certain age and in a certain profession, is shocking bad. No indicating, lucky if there’s one working brake light on the car. If a trailer is being towed, good luck. Then you can actually see the driver looking everywhere but the road. I usually have a rant about this a few times a week, when I’m stuck behind some numpty who doesn’t indicate, no brake light on the trailer, thinks road signs are just decorations for the roadside. And that Healy-Rae lad is a bigger numpty for questioning the need for road signs.
It says much for his chosen career that he is able to function as a member of the Dail, most of the political class see their job as being ” gettin in then gettin as much as they can ” this applies to most countries so we shouldn’t feel superior, but we do have a very good class of gobshites.
In a lot of rural areas, the local yooves tend to take great delight in turning the signs. And a turned sign is defintely worse than no sign at all! Many’s the time I’ve headed off in the wrong direction thanks to a bit of late-night shenanigans.
No money in signs as they are put in by the NRA also the bank hopes to “return to sustainable profitability by 2014.” by robbing the less well off..
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