The third installment...

Grandeeod

I think we knew this was coming down the tracks:D

http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/100000-to-be-hit-by-inevitable-rail-strike-varadkar-29913219.html

mickydoomsux

Grandeeod wrote: »

I think we knew this was coming down the tracks:D

http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/100000-to-be-hit-by-inevitable-rail-strike-varadkar-29913219.html

First i heard of this impending strike action and i work for IE Leo must be trying to put ideas in our heads.

The reason this is being opposed is that (like everyone else in the country) your average IE worker on the ground has had a number of cuts already and the vast majority of people who were released on voluntary severance/early retirement were higher grades who left the company with large payments and lower grades (who had signed up for the severance program at the exact same time) were then told that the pot was empty and will be for a good few years. That's another sticking point in this current set of negotiations. That and the fact that the only positions being filled in the company at the moment are senior positions and it's all lateral movement to fill them so it seems like people in management and executive grades are slightly feathering their own nests.

Add to that the fact that recent figures are showing both a (slight) rise in profits and a reduction in costs and it appears management may have messed up royally and left it too late to convince staff to take further cuts.

mickydoomsux

Never mind, he's already changed his mind

I don't really have many problems with the current government and i feel that they have overall been fairly even-handed in their handling of our economic woes but Leo as a minister is just awful and doesn't really seem to know what he's doing.

Him letting the buses actually go out on strike was an utter disaster for his department.

n97 mini

mickydoomsux wrote: »

Him letting the buses actually go out on strike was an utter disaster for his department.

I'd say he was engineering a public backlash. I'd do it too, but maybe more subtly.

Grandeeod

When the strike happens, we can all load in here with opinion. I bet it does!

cdebru

mickydoomsux wrote: »

Never mind, he's already changed his mind


Him letting the buses actually go out on strike was an utter disaster for his department.

I think they got a bit of a fright when the DB one didn't go as planned, so he might have been told to pull his neck in this time as likely IE workers won't be rolling over too quickly.

Hilly Bill

He is only scaremongering to fuel his own cause and shouldnt have said anything . A clown of the highest order.

Jamie2k9

http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0203/501996-three-year-pay-cuts-for-iarnrod-eireann-staff/

Staff at Iarnród Éireann face pay cuts lasting up to three years under new cost-reduction measures negotiated at the Labour Relations Commission.

Mod edit: don't post full articles!

Grandeeod

Looks like it's game on lads! Deal rejected.

MDFM

Yep..it was inevitable

schemingbohemia

mickydoomsux wrote: »

First i heard of this impending strike action and i work for IE Leo must be trying to put ideas in our heads.

The reason this is being opposed is that (like everyone else in the country) your average IE worker on the ground has had a number of cuts already and the vast majority of people who were released on voluntary severance/early retirement were higher grades who left the company with large payments and lower grades (who had signed up for the severance program at the exact same time) were then told that the pot was empty and will be for a good few years. That's another sticking point in this current set of negotiations. That and the fact that the only positions being filled in the company at the moment are senior positions and it's all lateral movement to fill them so it seems like people in management and executive grades are slightly feathering their own nests.

Add to that the fact that recent figures are showing both a (slight) rise in profits and a reduction in costs and it appears management may have messed up royally and left it too late to convince staff to take further cuts.

What cuts to core pay have you had?

cdebru

schemingbohemia wrote: »

What cuts to core pay have you had?

Why do only cuts to core pay mean you take less home ?

dowlingm

I read core pay as base salary before Allowances or Overtime.

cdebru

dowlingm wrote: »

I read core pay as base salary before Allowances or Overtime.

Exactly but if part of your job is to work shifts then it is not like you can avoid shift allowance can you?
If part of your job involves rostered overtime which you have to do any cuts to those affect your normal take home pay.
The whole no cuts to core pay is just spin.