Dunnes Stores strike *** See Mod warning ***

archieknox

What is the general consensus about the action being taken? Will anyone pass the pickets?




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phelixoflaherty

Well done to them, although they have been pushed all the way. No I will not pass

CarrickMcJoe

Won't be passing either, fair play to them.

mikemac1

Good for them, thumbs up from me

super_furry

I'm sure people will pass the pickets <SNIP>

MarkR

super_furry wrote: »

I'm sure people will pass the pickets, <SNIP>.

I won't be passing the picket, but I have a car and the ability to go elsewhere. Passing the picket doesn't make you a scumbag.

Cork Lass

MarkR wrote: »

I won't be passing the picket, but I have a car and the ability to go elsewhere. Passing the picket doesn't make you a scumbag.

To be fair this wasn't just sprung on us today. If some people have nowhere else to shop but Dunnes (highly unlikely) then they could have done it yesterday or could do it tomorrow. I'll be shopping in tesco this week for the stuff I normally get in Dunnes. I'll also go to my local Dunnes on my lunch break to stand there and support the strikers. Good on them.

galljga1

archieknox wrote: »

What is the general consensus about the action being taken? Will anyone pass the pickets?

Where will I get my oranges?

Won't pass picket.

MarkR

Cork Lass wrote: »

To be fair this wasn't just sprung on us today. If some people have nowhere else to shop but Dunnes (highly unlikely) then they could have done it yesterday or could do it tomorrow. I'll be shopping in tesco this week for the stuff I normally get in Dunnes. I'll also go to my local Dunnes on my lunch break to stand there and support the strikers. Good on them.

I agree, there are other places to go, and the strike plans were public for some time. Still doesn't make you a scumbag for passing a picket.

I've been reading on facebook that the Dunnes workers in Shannon were not striking, that they felt they were being treated well. Any strikers outside would not be representing them, but request people shop elsewhere? Third hand info, so apologies for being vague.

efb

No won't pass the picket.

Uncle Ben

Despite all the hype that exists on social media regarding union/non union issues in my experience I think a majority of Irish people actually do respect pickets.

oakshade

I got an email from Dunnes this morning advertising a 20% online sale "today only" - Mmmm

slimjimmc

Staff have the right to picket but people have the right to pass it.
Calling people scumbags or scabs is derogatory, abusive and not acceptable in this thread. Post civilly or not at all.

Teyla Emmagan

I wouldn't judge people for passing the picket, but I support the strikers 100%. Dunnes seem to be a desperate employer.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Supporting the strikers, definitely. Never know when you might have to picket the gate yourself, and you'd be glad of other's support.

Patser

oakshade wrote: »

I got an email from Dunnes this morning advertising a 20% online sale "today only" - Mmmm

Dunnes Facebook page getting some abuse where they advertise this offer.

blue4ever

Least we should forget:

galljga1 wrote: »

Where will I get my oranges?

They have the right to strike and its not as if they are looking (IMO) for something outlandish. They are asking for some stability in their working lives.

I'll get the fruit elsewhere!

Akrasia

I fully support the Dunnes Stores workers.

When a company hires someone, they have a responsibility towards that worker to treat them with respect, just as the worker has a responsibility to his/her employer to do honest work for their pay.

zero hours or wildly fluctiating hours contracts are very unfair on employees, as is their rostering system that does not give the workers adequate notice of when they will be working week on week.

It is totally unacceptable for an employer to call people in the morning of their day off and expect them to come into work, it's also unacceptable to bring someone into work and then tell them that they have to go home because the shop isn't busy and they're not needed.

In other professions where there are requirements to come to work at short notice, employers pay for their workers to be 'on call'. Dunnes doesn't do that. It doesn't pay its workers enough to compensate them for the working conditions it expects of them.

Gatling

And yet thousands apply to work for them every year .
Woder why alot of these staff just don't pack it in and go elsewhere .
It's not as if they have no other options

ebbsy

I know people who left Dunnes because of this issue, so it is happening.

onasis

Gatling wrote: »

And yet thousands apply to work for them every year .
Woder why alot of these staff just don't pack it in and go elsewhere .
It's not as if they have no other options

Some people actually don't have the option - jobs aren't exactly 10 a penny in case you hadn't noticed.

magnethead

WOn't pass the picket either

hdowney

I won't be passing the picket. I'd never pass one. My grandmother would turn in her grave (if she had one!) if I did that. Was raised up in a family to be supportive of workers rights and unions and the like. Think zero hours contracts are disgraceful.

mjsc1970

Wont be passing the picket line. I'll go SuperValu instead.

EndaHonesty

hdowney wrote: »

I won't be passing the picket. I'd never pass one. My grandmother would turn in her grave (if she had one!) if I did that.

OT but I'm just curious. Is your grandmother dead or not?

hdowney

EndaHonesty wrote: »

OT but I'm just curious. Is your grandmother dead or not?

She is. She was cremated though - hence no grave to turn in.

Varik

Will be dropping in on way home, it's the most convenient place for me to stop so won't be changing my plans.

dollyk

Lidl have the same 10 hour contracts, I have 20 in the last year
and im there 9 years. seems to be the norm for most big stores.
And like dunnes they still take on staff, while people there years
begging for more hours .

Streetwalker

Varik wrote: »

Will be dropping in on way home, it's the most convenient place for me to stop so won't be changing my plans.

As is your right.

Won't be passing any picket myself, never have never would. Takes a certain type of human being to pass a picket.

LynnGrace

Never passed a picket, certainly won't, in this case either.

hoodwinked

Gatling wrote: »

And yet thousands apply to work for them every year .
Woder why alot of these staff just don't pack it in and go elsewhere .
It's not as if they have no other options

for most of them there isn't, quite a few would be on the old contracts earning over €10 an hour which goes up annually, if they leave they go back to minimum wage and lose the annual increment contract and therefore a chunk of their wages not to mention it is essentially "a job for life", the new people joining tend to be for the most part college students who come and go once they graduate and don't mind starting on minimum wage.