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SIPTU's Sweetheart Deal

category dublin | worker & community struggles and protests | news report author Wednesday June 09, 2004 14:29author by Unionwatch

Details of the Sweetheart Deal between SIPTU and Connex

Maybe this is old news but it's the first I heard of it.

SIPTU have agreed a 'closed shop' deal with Connex for the new Dublin tram system obliging all workers to be SIPTU members and forbidding them from switching union.

The pay-off for Connex is that SIPTU have agreed that 'there will be no industrial action of any form during the lifetime of this agreement.'

Days like this that remind me why I resigned from SIPTU.

http://www.eiro.eurofound.ie/print/2003/11/inbrief/ie0311202n.html

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/65435

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