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19th December 2009, 00:37
Dock Workers Face Christmas on Strike Pay
8/12/09
Workers at Dublin Port are facing the prospect of spending Christmas on strike pay due to the intransigence of bosses.
The Marine Terminals Ltd staff at the port in the capital endured a 111-day strike earlier this year in protest against efforts to implement arbitrary compulsory redundancies by MTL management.
Following a ruling by the Labour Courts that voluntary redundancy be the first course of action and that the terms of this be enhanced, the striking workers agreed to end their picket at Dublin Port.
However, 59 days after the ending of the picket, and despite a number of meetings between SIPTU officials and MTL management, not one member of staff has been allowed back to work by the company.
irg chairperson Brian Leeson said: The Dublin Port workers ended their strike action 59 days ago and they should have been allowed back to work 58 days ago. This is a totally unacceptable and vindictive abuse of power on the part of MTL management.
It appears what is happening here is that the bosses in MTL are deliberately delaying the staffs return to work in an effort to teach them a lesson. They appear determined to make the point that any future strike action will be met with brutal retaliation by bosses. Anyone who witnessed the courage and steadfastness of the Port workers during the recent strike will know that this lesson will not be easily learned.
Leeson continued: Christmas is usually one of the most financially punishing times of years for working people. The well-paid people who call the shots in MTL should consider for once what it be would like to have to spend the holiday period subsisting on strike pay and take the only morally plausible option let the staff back to work.
Every act of vindictiveness, ruthlessness and financial avarice by bosses in this country reinforces the point that they arent fit to run a car boot sale never mind an economy.
from eirigi.org
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8/12/09
Workers at Dublin Port are facing the prospect of spending Christmas on strike pay due to the intransigence of bosses.
The Marine Terminals Ltd staff at the port in the capital endured a 111-day strike earlier this year in protest against efforts to implement arbitrary compulsory redundancies by MTL management.
Following a ruling by the Labour Courts that voluntary redundancy be the first course of action and that the terms of this be enhanced, the striking workers agreed to end their picket at Dublin Port.
However, 59 days after the ending of the picket, and despite a number of meetings between SIPTU officials and MTL management, not one member of staff has been allowed back to work by the company.
irg chairperson Brian Leeson said: The Dublin Port workers ended their strike action 59 days ago and they should have been allowed back to work 58 days ago. This is a totally unacceptable and vindictive abuse of power on the part of MTL management.
It appears what is happening here is that the bosses in MTL are deliberately delaying the staffs return to work in an effort to teach them a lesson. They appear determined to make the point that any future strike action will be met with brutal retaliation by bosses. Anyone who witnessed the courage and steadfastness of the Port workers during the recent strike will know that this lesson will not be easily learned.
Leeson continued: Christmas is usually one of the most financially punishing times of years for working people. The well-paid people who call the shots in MTL should consider for once what it be would like to have to spend the holiday period subsisting on strike pay and take the only morally plausible option let the staff back to work.
Every act of vindictiveness, ruthlessness and financial avarice by bosses in this country reinforces the point that they arent fit to run a car boot sale never mind an economy.
from eirigi.org
also check mtldockers.com keep updated.