Cheiftan workers end their picket and return to work
Agency workers will no longer be employed at Cheiftan construction, at least that is what SIPTU members have been told following the resolution of a three week dispute yesterday.
11 employees had accused the company of displacing them in favour of cheaper agency workers after they were let go in December. They subsequently mounted a picket on a housing development in Castleconnel in protest.
After three days of negotiations, they have returned to work as direct employees of the company, and they will enjoy the same terms and conditions they had before.
The agency workers who worked on the site for the past three weeks will no longer be employed by the company. According to the report in the County edition of the Limerick Leader, Cheiftan will now only engage in direct labour rather than agency labour.
Four of the employees returned to work yesterday morning, with more starting again on Monday.
Let this be a lesson to those who say trade unions are useless.
May 15th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
well done to all- quite a result.
May 16th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Not before time. well done indeed.
May 17th, 2008 at 7:54 am
Great result!
May 17th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Not a great result for the agency workers who are now presumably out of work.
May 17th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Yeah well if they went to employers directly they might get more favorible conditions than they would at the agencies.
May 17th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Thats a very simplistic answer Squid….so they are all working for agencies out of choice because they could not be bothered go directly to employers?
May 17th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Stupid answer,Squid. “If they went to the employer” “they might get more..”You’re very free with other people’s jobs. Happy for you up there in your ivory tower. Why should people who want to work through agencies not do so without being turfed out of their jobs by the extortion rackets which is all that unions have become.