Greyound strike ends as workers accept new proposals
A 14-week strike by workers at the Greyhound waste disposal company is over.
Sixty-eight workers have attended a meeting in Liberty Hall in Dublin today, where the majority of them voted in favour of new cost cutting proposals.
They include improved redundancy terms for those who want to leave the company and compensation for those who are staying - as well as pay cuts of between 15% and 20%.
The agreement includes a redundancy package of two weeks pay plus statutory entitlements of two weeks per year of service for the workers who have decided to leave the firm.
Thirteen of the workers who are remaining with the company will retain their previous terms and conditions.
These workers will work on a Dublin City Council contract to collect waste from social housing, and will be selected according to length of service at the company.
Those who are remaining there, but will not be working on the social housing contract, have agreed a wage reduction of between 15% and 20%.
These workers will also be compensated for the changes by receiving a payment of a sum equal to 30% of the redundancy package to which they would have been entitled if they were leaving.
One of the workers, Ray Reilly, said: "The outcome was...a substantial majority passed in favour of the new proposals.
"Hopefully we can all move on now and let's get the deal done; get workers back to work and whoever wants to get the redundancy package will take it...Let's move on with our lives from here on in."
