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[PR] Customer Notice: Potential disruption to Bus Éireann services on Sun 13 Jan

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  • 11-01-2013 3:07pm
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    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users Posts: 25,722 ✭✭✭✭


    Bus Éireann wishes to advise customers that there may be disruption to its services on Sunday, January 13th, 2013 due to threatened unofficial industrial action.
    We apologise to customers for any inconvenience this may cause.
    As the company has not been informed of the nature of this unofficial industrial action, it is difficult for us to quantify the extent of the disruption.
    However, Bus Éireann will endeavour to keep customers fully informed of any changes to services.
    Customers are advised that information on any disruption to services will be updated regularly on the Bus Éireann website www.buseireann.ie throughout Sunday. This information will also be made available to local and national media.

    Ref: http://www.buseireann.ie/news.php?id=1235&month=Jan


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    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    Mrs OBumble wrote: »

    Ref: http://www.buseireann.ie/news.php?id=1235&month=Jan
    Is it unofficial action? I thought the unons had followed all the priper proceedures?


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    schemingbohemia
    Registered Users Posts: 5,606 ✭✭✭schemingbohemia


    Neither Siptu nor TAAS nor NBRU gave a full 7 days notice for action to start on Sunday, and they're well short of the inhouse agreement (per BE management) of giving the normal 30 days notice.


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    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users Posts: 25,722 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Read the release lads:

    "threatened unofficial industrial action. ... As the company has not been informed of the nature of this unofficial industrial action,


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    schemingbohemia
    Registered Users Posts: 5,606 ✭✭✭schemingbohemia


    Eh, I did, and explained it to FL. Putting it in bold does not explain it......


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    Vic_08
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    Industrial action has been called off.


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    Hilly Bill
    Registered Users Posts: 6,039 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    foggy_lad wrote: »
    Is it unofficial action? I thought the unons had followed all the priper proceedures?

    Thats the thing Foggy, there will always be some that will ignore the unions and go on an unofficial strike.
    They pay into the unions so that they can be represented and then ignore what the Union advises them .
    Its the members themselves that has the final say in if they strike or accept the proposals , the unions just do the donkey work for them.
    You will always get the few hardliners who have the Ian Paisley approach and say nothing but NO NO NEVER.
    What will happen is that some will ignore the instructions of the unions and go out unofficial. These will then get reprimanded in some way and then they run back to the unions for help because they got reprimanded for ignoring the unions in the first place. Their colleagues will then protest at their co workers getting reprimanded for being on an unofficial strike and then issue a strike warning themselves . In the meantime the poor commuters will be scratching their heads wandering what the bejesus is going on and the Labour court will get another phonecall from the CIE hotline.


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    Hilly Bill
    Registered Users Posts: 6,039 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    Vic_08 wrote: »
    Industrial action has been called off.

    The official one.


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