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WORKERS AT ESB have agreed to meet with management at the Labour Relations Commission following an intervention by government.
Minister Pat Rabbitte asked the LRC to resolve the dispute over pensions before consumers are impacted by interruptions to the country’s power supply.
The ESB Group of Unions is planning industrial action, beginning 16 December.
In an irate statement in the early hours of this morning, the unions slammed a “so-called offer” it had received from ESB management yesterday. The offer, it said, will infuriate every union member of the Defined Benefit pension scheme.
“Yesterday, ESB management stated to the Unions that they agreed that the description of this scheme as a DB scheme and, simultaneously as a DC scheme, was no longer sustainable. Today, that same management tabled a formal so called ‘offer’ which did just that,” the unions explained.
“Given that ESB management have again demonstrated utter bad faith and duplicity the ESB Group of Unions welcome an invitation from the Labour Relations Commission for a meeting and have agreed to such a meeting.”
Announcing the government’s intervention, Rabbitte said:
It is unthinkable that our economic recovery should be jeopardised, domestic consumers inconvenienced and our country’s reputation undermined by a power disruption that appears to be out of all proportion to the issues in dispute.
“I have therefore this evening requested the Labour Relations Commission to convene the parties at the earliest possible time,” he added, noting that he hoped the LRC would be able to “clear up any uncertainty as early as possible”.
Headline should read. . . “French experts hired to rule out Arafat poison theory do their jobs and rule out poison theory”.
I wonder which payed Israeli blogger turns up on The Journal first tonight.
Exactly.
I’m pro Israel, they certainly don’t pay me and I would be most indignant if they offered. Unlike those who push Pallywood propaganda – I wonder how much the terrorists in Hamas pay them – I deal in facts. The independent French team said no, the Russians found nothing, the Swiss found a possibility. There was no reason for Israel to kill Arafat, his corruption was keeping the Palestinians split.
Clown.
That Comment was meant for Tomas, anyone not sympathetic to his way of thinking is a paid agent of Israel, idiot!
Im waiting for someone to blame Alan Shatter,he’s the one that usually gets it in the neck from every anti Jewish commentator.
Are you inciting anti semtic comments then?
You can get paid Richard, it’s no secret.
But…But…it had to have been those sneaky jews…who else can we blame….
Hamas is the democratically elected government of Palestine, no matter how much this grinds on Israel gears.
Total number of Israelis killed by rocket, mortar or anti-tank fire from Gaza since 2006: 47
(Source: Wikipedia. This is disputed; another source says 26)
Number of Palestinians in Gaza killed by Israeli fire from April 1st 2006 to July 21st 2012: 2,879
(Source: United Nations)
Terrorism??? Palestinians have had their lands stolen, farm lands burned to a crisp, their trees felled, their homes bulldozed to the ground, their children imprisoned, tortured and murdered, schools bombed, women in labor prevented from going to hospital, access to clean water restricted and aid severely restricted . . . the list goes on. And that’s all before we get into the apartheid system in Israel itself. Is this not terrorism? If not why not?
The fact you are not a payed blogger Richard doesn’t belie the fact they have an army of payed bloggers.
Who cares? Good riddance.
One election doesn`t make a democracy.
Kris…
Can’t blame those sneaky Jews? That’s OK, clock has started on the 1st commenter that will blame the warmongering Americans. Tick….tick….tick….
That may all be true Fled, but what does it have to do with this thread?
I was responding to Richard.
Do all Palestine Solidarity activists go to a special school where they learn things like spelling ‘paid’ as ‘payed’? I mean, if we can’t get small things like this right, what hope is there for credibility on big things like outrageous allegations of Israeli ‘genocide’, ‘apartheid’ etc?
An autopsy was not held by request of his wife?? Sure what in the jaysus does she expect so? Women
Who cares how the old paedophile died?
The journal back-pedaling again. “I thought it woz the pesky Joos wot done it”. Check your facts in future. Very sloppy journalism with a strong whiff of anti-semitism.
Israel wasn’t responsible = only 24 comments. A rather disappointing result for thejournal.ie, usually they get a few hundred comments, especially for a front page article on Israel/Palestine.
Its not what the IPSC numbskulls wanted to hear.
Can you imagine the faux outrage (and self-indulgent and barely-concealed triumphalism) if the headline had read “France confirms Arafat was poisoned with polonium”?
not like that nation to lie is it
French experts rule out Arafat poisoning..when they realise he is already dead
The Swiss said poisoning was possible, I don’t recall then commenting on probability?
“French experts?”
A joke, no?
Why was my comment on my opinion that the last paragraph seems pointless deleted ?
have your say