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UNIONS AT ESB have put the blame for the pension dispute at the company squarely on management as both sides met in Dublin today.
In a statement of their position directed at management, the ESB Group of Unions say that the current chief executive is not living up to the commitments made by his predecessor to “not, in any way, dilute ESB’s commitment to the pension scheme”.
“You, the most senior and highly paid management in ESB, have brought this once well managed company to an unprecedented industrial relations crisis,” the ESB GoU pointedly say.
Unions have said that they will serve notice of industrial action from tomorrow which could lead to strike action from 16 December.
The dispute centres on a 2010 pension agreement which unions say has been breached to put a staff at a greater risk of losing out if there is a shortfall. The unions say there is a €1.6 billion deficit in the scheme.
The ESB GoU issued a directed attack on three primary executives within the ESB saying that they “have hidden away from accountability and scrutiny”.
The unions have also said that Government ministers who have been speaking about the dispute are “just wrong” in their view that the pension scheme is “on track”. They cite ministers Joan Burton, Leo Varadkar, Pat Rabbittee and Taoiseach Enda Kenny who have made similar assurances about the health of the pension scheme.
They say tha the Government are “the effective owners of ESB and that if they believe that there is “no risk” to the scheme than the company should have no problem in altering the terms the fund so that the company carries the risk.
Doing so they say would “resolve this dispute before notice of action is even issued”.
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Heard there was a whistle stolen there a few years back
1575 there was a massacre of 3000 women and children . English behaving like Isis back then !
I had an uncle who did security in Mosney. Any time he caught someone jumping over the fence, he’d push them back over so they could finish off their holiday.
I’m from the country and have currently live in Dublin. My local shop has security on the door all day long because the locals (mainly kids) would rob the snot out of your nose.
@Shane Dunne: There’s a Tesco in finglas I know of that has security on the door constantly. Unreal
@Aaron Gibson: that’s normal in certain parts of Dublin. . They don’t care if it’s on their own door step ..
Was in Rathlin last week . Lovely spot n people. Culturally very Irish. There’s a Gaelscoil in nearby Baile an Chaistil.
@Niall Conneely: it’s a strange article. The DUP have as much presence/interest in that part of the country as Fine Gael do why they’re quoting one of their councillors is bizarrely
Rathlin served as a link between Ireland and Scotland. It had its own dialect of Irish, which was a mixture of Irish and Scottish gaelic.
@Seán Ó Briain: That would be the Ulster-Scots dialect.
@Nigel Mcatamney: No – not Ulster-Scots. The Irish language was spoken on Rathlin and the specific dialect of Rathlin was a mixture of Irish and Scottish Gaelic.
@Nigel Mcatamney: You mean when someone speaks English with a drunk accent?
It was like Boyz in the Hood.
All tesco extras have security not just clearwater in finglas
@David Grey: I was actually referring to the Tesco express beside the annunciation church. Not all Tesco expresses have security on the door, who open the door for every single person who comes in or out of the place.
I thought they had stolen a whistle!
@Ann Casey: 2 minutes too late ann
‘Right lads, what’s the escape route’
??????????
‘OK, forget it’
On the island of Cape Clare they have there own way of doing things. I heard from an elderly lady who having had an operation needed to spend a month in bed to recuperate. She asked the owner of the hens and cockerels in the field next to her bedroom to kindly moved them to another field as they were disturbing her sleep. Nothing was done. When she recovered and got her strength back, she went into the field and strangled every single bird. Nothing further was said or done by either party.
A mountain bike went missing on Valentia Island a few days back near the Clock Tower in Knightstown.
@Beachmaster: i do wonder about you .
So what if there’s a fire when the fireman is being the ferry captain?
The pesky Vikings were the first scoundrels to hit the island.
I can see octupussy planing a crabby crime in some plaice on the island
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