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A SECOND DAY of strike action is set to take place at 34 Lloyds Pharmacy outlets around the country tomorrow in a row over pay.
Over 200 pharmacy workers will hold a two-hour picket between 10am and midday.
Trade union Mandate has accused the company of utilising zero-hours contracts. Lloyds itself put out a statement earlier accusing the union of misleading the media saying “we do not have, and never had, zero-hour contracts”.
All part-time workers were given notice of working hours six weeks in advance, the company said, and the contracts they were on were aligned to the needs of the business.
A union spokesperson said, however, that the company was misleading the media.
“We have members coming to us and showing us their contracts today, some of whom have been employed in recent weeks, and they are clearly zero hour contracts,” Gerry Light, Mandate Assistant General Secretary, said.
A copy of a contract shared by Mandate states: “Your normal hours of work are flexible as agreed with your Manager, spread over up [sic] 5 days between Monday and Sunday and may include late night and weekend work.”
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Light said the union represented a third of all workers at Lloyds, with over 220 members. The company said only 13% of employees had been balloted ahead of the strike action.
Lloyds said progress had been made addressing the issues at the heart of the dispute at its employee negotiating body, the Colleague Representative Committee.
Light, from the union, insisted however that the CRC had no mandate to address worker concerns, describing it as “a sophisticated anti-union tactic imported from the United States in order to ensure workers do not have the right to independent representation”.
An initial day of action targeting the pharmacy chain was held earlier this month.
The dispute arose after the retailer rejected a recommendation from the Labour Court that it negotiate with Mandate over pay conditions.
Lloyds said in a statement:
“We wish to assure patients once more that a full plan is in place to minimise its impact. With the hard work and professionalism of our team, disruption was curtailed last week, with only four stores closing for the one-hour period of the strike. We are confident that despite tomorrow’s action, stores will be open and patients’ needs will be met. We thank our patients for their support.”
It added:
“The next phase of CRC engagement is underway. We have indicated our commitment to speedily delivering further affordable improvements, including on pay scales.”
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What this really means is that Merrill Lynch have given the Green Light for an election – why now with this video ?
Silly politicians and their bankers’ plans !
Why you no not not believe there intelligent robotic beings be? Ha ha ha. There be no intelligent robotic beings on Earth (Proxima 23-XER) and certainly not not on Betelgeuse-12. Ha ha ha you inferior being be!
‘And remember, even though you were elected for fine gael, were a lifelong member of fine gael, and would still be in fine gael if the legislating for the x case thing hadn’t happened……you’re nothing like fine gael’
And Fine Gael still take funding from central government for people who are no longer members of their party – it shows how useless Lucinda is that she cannot bring that simple court case before a judge …
It’s like a farmer claiming grants on sheep that have left his farm – and we know there are rules and fines against those kind of things !
Very weak in the brain department Renua is !
Pretending to be politicians morelike !
Still excellent video for the reptilian conspiracy theorists !
Assuming by the fact that this was only meant for candidates since it’s only allowed for people with a link I’m going to go ahead and assume it was private and say Renua probably leaked it themselves to try show voters how they’re different and if it was meant to be public it was clearly all for show.
Political wasteland beckons for these no hopers. Re Olda would be more apt. Same faces – same insincere bullsh*t. No thanks FG lite but I look forward to telling you in person if you manage to get past the dog!
“You’ve heard about people being busy, Poochie should be Biz-ay.”
“When Poochie is off screen, the other characters should be asking ‘wheres Poochie?’”
Must be a strange concept for politions to act like humans, looks like the taxpayers will be on the hook again for a jamboree to Florida to attend a seminar on acting human.
Karl Deeter is noted for his strong advocacy in favour of the Banks and their tough and unrelenting approach to mortgage arrears. I don’t see much sign of humanity and compassion to his approach on homelessness and mortgage arrears.
“If they say they would simply never vote for a Renua candidate that’s also ok. This country has a strong tradition of deep loyalties to certain parties that, whether they deserve it or not, people will behave the same way.”
That’s right, if someone won’t vote for you, it’s because of long-standing loyalties to other parties, not because you are a terrible terrible party – but skip over THAT part because you can only be a victim of other people’s conviction NOT of your own failings.
F**k’s sake, Renua.
This video continues Renua’s short-lived but still relatively long-standing history of displaying zero self-awareness whatsoever.
“I am a real human being,
I am a real human being
I am a real human bean,
I am a real true-man bean,
I am the real bean, this is true,
I am the seed of a plant, true?
I am Ozymandias with a CGI penis.
Thank you”
That video is tragically bad …. its a lesson in how to conduct yourself in front of strangers for complete morons , is that who they are planning on sending to doorsteps ?
Even the fact that the turkey is standing in the way on the footpath …. rookie
And remember to keep up the fake smile and pull the wool over there eyes,
Send them a letter stating that you are waiting on a reply to sort there problem,
Another shower of money grabbing crooks,
Fine gael+1
All Political Parties are just Private Clubs who will max your tax for their own interests.
However, there is some merit in the Renua proposal to reduce the voting age to 25 as older voters shouldn’t be allowed near a polling booth ever again in the future, considering the right mess they made of the country by repeatedly voting for political parties / private ‘whipped’ clubs. Independents at 26% in the polls means that the Party of Choice is “No Party”. Irish are waking up!
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