Support locked out Greyhound workers
by Niall Shanahan
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A lockout of Siptu members at Greyhound waste management is continuing. The company has brought in agency workers while it locks out its own staff in a dispute over the company’s attempts to impose pay cuts of 35%. You can help the workers by signing the petition set up by Siptu. The dispute has renewed the focus on waste management practices for the first time since the decision by Dublin City Council to hand over Dublin’s waste collection services to private operators in January 2012. In a report in the Irish Times today (Friday), the company is described as “the recidivist offenders of the waste management industry.” The newspaper reports that the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton, is to launch a review of the sector on foot of the dispute. Support Trade unions, including IMPACT, have backed calls to support the Greyhound workers. A petition, calling on Greyhound’s chief executive to stop using strikebreaking tactics and negotiate with staff, has been set up on the Change.org website. Siptu have asked IMPACT members to sign the petition and to ‘like’ the Justice for Greyhound Workers page on Facebook.
You can also download a copy of the ‘Justice for Greyhound Workers’ poster here.
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