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[Article] DART drivers get €650 reward for working the summer schedules

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  • 09-06-2003 6:28pm
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    Victor
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    http://home.eircom.net/content/unison/national/855747?view=Eircomnet
    DART drivers get €650 reward for working the summer schedules
    From:The Irish Independent
    Monday, 9th June, 2003
    Gerald Flynn Industrial Correspondent

    DART drivers are to get a special compensation package to work the new summer schedules - which they ignored last week.

    Each of them will be paid €650 due to disruption caused at a maintenance depot in Fairview, central Dublin, which suffered a fire two years ago.

    They are also seeking a special €2,500 payment for disruption caused by work on the East Wall bridge near the new Dublin Port Tunnel works.

    Over the weekend Iarnrod Eireann management agreed to make the payments in return for the National Bus and Rail Union members operating the new rosters.

    The lump sum offer for resolving the Fairview issue is to be put to the drivers, while the claim over the Port Tunnel/East Wall bridge is to be referred to the Labour Relations Commission next month.

    NBRU general secretary, Liam Tobin, last night stated he was optimistic the formula would succeed in resolving the outstanding issues. He called on the State rail company to remain within the procedures agreed with the Labour Relations Commission in future to ensure good industrial relations are maintained.

    Both the NBRU and SIPTU members have voted by large majorities for industrial action and strikes to oppose plans to break-up CIE and impose a form of competition. That threatened action has been deferred at least until July.

    Meanwhile, Irish Rail is being urged to drop its fee for carrying bicycles on Dart and other suburban services, in keeping with New York and London.

    An Taisce is calling on Irish Rail to become more "bicycle-friendly" and allow push-bikes to be carried free on all main-line services. It is also pushing for the fee to take a bike on suburban trains outside peak hours to be scrapped.


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    Victor
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    http://home.eircom.net/content/irelandcom/breaking/857479?view=Eircomnet
    CIE unions to hold 'crisis' meeting over break-up plan
    From:ireland.com
    Monday, 9th June, 2003

    Leaders of the two main Dublin Bus unions are to hold a public meeting tomorrow to outline their opposition to plans by the Minister for Transport to break up the CIE group.

    Both SIPTU and the National Bus and Railworkers' Union have voted for strike action over the plans, which they say would see a quarter of all Dublin Bus routes handed over to private firms.

    While it is understood that no strike action is likely for the next month, union sources said it appeared there was now no room for manoeuvre between the two sides and that industrial action would go ahead during the summer.

    The strikes are expected to affect all CIE companies including DART, rail and bus.

    One bus driver involved in tomorrow's event, which takes place at the Teachers' Club at 8 p.m., said the meeting was set up to inform members of the public about the likely result of breaking up CIE.

    Mr Owen McCormack said that three companies in Britain now had a "virtual monopoly" over bus services and that usage of bus routes, apart from those in London, had "collapsed" since privatisation.

    "People are been misled by this government. Competition will not solve our transport problems and breaking up CIE resolves nothing. Decades of underfunding and government mismanagement of the company have snowballed to the present crisis. But CIE workers are determined not to be used as scapegoats for government policies that led us here."

    He told ireland.com: "I think there's a crisis coming. There are no real negotiations going on and there's no real space to negotiate," he said.


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    dmeehan
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    well if dublin bus do go on strike, at least there will still be 25% of the routes running thanks to the private operators:D


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    sligoliner
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    Testing of the new 2900 series has stopped due to industrial relation problems. Apparently the new railcar maintenance depot in Drogheda is to be part operated by a private company and this sticks in the gullet of trade unions in IE. So maintenance people have with been drawn from testing the new trains and the testing has now stopped as maintentenance crew had to travel on the trains to monitor their performance.

    What next - the Drivers probably won't work them unless they paid extra!

    ILDA-ism is sadly now the default mentality of the Irish Rail employee...


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    dmeehan
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    i dont understand why they should be rewarded for working the summer timetable

    i dont get paid any extra for working in the summer, why should train drivers?


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    sligoliner
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    becuse a huge number of them are arseholes.


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    Imposter
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    If they didn't work it would there be any chance of them being rewarded with a P45?


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