Brinks Allied workers to vote on strike proposals
Workers at the Brinks Allied security firm are due to vote today on proposals aimed at ending a dispute over the introduction of new security vans.
The proposals were drawn up during five hours of talks between at the Labour Relations Commission yesterday.
SIPTU has recommended that the workers accept the deal.
A result is expected later this morning.
Brinks staff have been refusing to work with the new security vans since they were introduced last week in an effort to combat a spate of armed raids.
They had claimed the vans and new security arrangements left them more vulnerable to attack.
In particular, security van drivers do not agree with new instructions from Brinks Allied to flee the scene and abandon their colleague in the event of a robbery.
“He could be left there with a gun stuck to his head under serious threat of injury or death,” the union's security branch secretary, Kevin McMahon, said.
