Minister has not asked me to intervene in Luas strike, says SIPTU president
SIPTU general president Jack O'Connor has said that the Transport Minister has not asked him to intervene in this weekend's Luas strike - because he knows he (O'Connor) cannot.
Speaking this morning, Minister Pascal Donohoe
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However Mr O'Connor says he cannot do that due to union rules, but he is willing to "engage" on the matter immediately.
He has also criticised the media for inflating the pay offer of up to 18.7% made to drivers by management.
Jack O'Connor denies that the Minister wants him to call off the strike.
"He didn't call on me to do that, because he probably knows that I can't," he said.
"He called on me to engage, and I'm telling you, as I told other people earlier, that I'm prepared to engage this minute - but we have to have somebody to engage with.
"And what we have to do, and there's still time to do it, we have to apply ourselves now to address the inadequacies of the proposals."
The SIPTU union is hosting a series of events in Dublin to commemorate the Rising over the Easter weekend.
