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Deadline to resolve bus dispute
SIPTU NEC appoints Gene Mealy as new union Vice President
Dunnes Stores attack on workers provokes escalation of dispute
Solidarity with Dunnes Stores Workers
Health Minister addresses health care assistants conference
SIPTU Health Care Assistants tell us why they are worth it
Health workers to rally for better services and jobs
Bord na Móna workers meet TDs to discuss dispute
Former Ulster Bank workers’ protest
Successful conference on future of Palestine
Dr Mona El Farra speaking to SIPTU Palestine Conference
Elaine Bradley gives eye witness account of life in Palestine
Government action needed to end home helps’ zero-hour contracts
Zero-hour contracts and low pay the norm for young workers
Aer Lingus assurances concerning proposed takeover are inadequate
Water: Public resource or private commodity?
Global Action Day
Belfast GAA club in Industrial Tribunal over failure to pay redundancy
Cuba and US presidents hold historic talks
Cuba Dublin Festival
Cuban Film Festival
Call for clinical review of new psychiatric unit on CUH campus
Support for re-opening of Lagan Brick production plant
May Day 2015
Irish Equity supports call for halt to cuts in Northern Ireland cultural sector
Retained fire-fighters commit to industrial action if unsafe changes imposed
Yes to Equality
Support for Pfizer decision not to close Little Island plant
Additional funding for patient care at University Hospital Galway
New Activists training in the Community Sector
Seminar for frontline services
Polish Cultural Night
Ecumenical service of remembrance for children killed in the Easter Rising, Dublin
Low pay must top political agenda
Reducing inequality will not happen on its own – explicit policies are needed
NERI Seminar: A Future Worth Working For
Young Workers Network
Seán Murray Marxist‐Leninist and Irish Socialist Republican by Seán Byers
Docklands Book Sale
SIPTU Members Home Insurance
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SIPTU Basic English Scheme
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Deadline to resolve bus dispute

Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann drivers, who are members of SIPTU, will consider issuing formal notice of industrial action on Friday, 24th April, in the dispute over attempts to privatise 10% of public bus services.

The decision to create a deadline for progress in the ongoing dispute came at a meeting of senior SIPTU shop stewards in Liberty Hall, Dublin, on Monday, (13th April).

SIPTU Construction and Utilities Organiser, Owen Reidy, said: “The view of the Strike Committee is that a one-day work stoppage, or any form of minor industrial action, may not achieve our aim of protecting our members' terms and conditions or safeguard the continued provision of a property funded public bus service.”

He added: “We are formally seeking meetings with all relevant parties to this dispute by 24th April. If the concerns of bus workers are not adequately dealt with at these meetings the committee has decided that it will meet to consider issuing formal notice of substantial industrial action.”

SIPTU Bus Drivers in Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann voted by over 90%, in both companies, in favour of industrial action and strike action in a ballot counted on Friday, (10th April). The ballot resulted from the breakdown of Labour Relations Commission (LRC) talks involving the transport unions, representatives of the bus companies, the National Transport Authority (NTA) and the Department of Transport.

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