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If you got a payrise for talking to one another and ignoring customers then the staff in my local Dunnes should be millionaires
There’s a lot of bully tactics used in dunnes from head down. It’s in the training through the ranks to treat others like shite. The ordinary customer doesn’t know the half of what goes on.
A 3% PAY increase..
on a 15-25 hour week,
spread over 5 days,
so you can’t claim dole.
Everyone knows Dunnes are in cahoots with
the social welfare………..
Yes but those working there aren’t wanting to scrounge a living, they want to work for it and do a days work for a days pay
Even a person on minimum wage doing a 35 hour week is only getting €9 extra per week, absolute disgrace that is
Very true!
A wage increase is a terrible thing, sure hasn’t everyone in the country been getting raises for the last 6 years….. Or maybe I’m confused
Exactly, people have got nothing but wage decreases/hours cut, extra work loads, worse contracts to just name a few from their employers the past 6 years, while the employers are still raking it in, also with extra taxes, charges and so on, €9 extra a week is a disgrace.
The minimum wage should be brought up to €12ph and a minimum of a 12.5% rise across the board for everyone. This country and its employers are a joke
That’s fine. But I want a comparative payrise also if that’s going to be the case.
….and a day’s punctuation
Must be the profit on their 70c bags
Biggest shower of &@#% ever. The youngwans on the counters are as pig ignorant!
How come when mandate lose a Labour Court recommendation and don’t abide by it they keep the head down and say nothing.
Are all Union leaders millionaires like Begg and co.
I hate my local dunnes stores, I avoid it, I got sick of going in there and hate the way staff act there, there’s a tescos about 1,000 feet from dunnes and I much rather shop there, the staff are way nicer
Must agree, I find Dunnes staff not so nice either.
Ah Mandate Official Gerry Light! In another life I had to negotiate with this individual, he sums up everything bad about the Irish union movement an utterly horrible person.
I’m pretty sure that if you had to negotiate with this trade union official, you’re not supposed to be a big fan of him. Sounds like he’s doing his job right to me.
Arise? Lucky them! Haven’t got any arise since ’07.
There’s tablets you can take for that….
Yessss a good news story!!!!!!
As envious as I am that they got increase, it only makes me hopeful that more employers will follow suit. Im taking this as a good sign :)
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