PRESS RELEASE
LRC Intervention in the ongoing Bus Dispute.
NBRU today responded to the request to attend at the LRC on Monday at 3 pm.
General Secretary Dermot O’Leary said :
“ We will as a matter of course be attending, however it is important that there is a clear understanding of our position;It requires an all party commitment to address all of the issues on the pre- agreed interlocked agenda, inclusive of no staff transferring, no legacy cost consequences for staff, extraction of labour costs from tendering, a regulatory regime with teeth that will ensure that a breach of contract on agreed employment terms and conditions will be met with penalties, inclusive of the ultimate sanction of contract termination, For some time now it has been quite clear to us that the savings to the taxpayer argument being promulgated by the NTA is almost exclusively based on Labour costs”.
Mr O’Leary went on to say:
“The NBRU are on record as highlighting our concern in relation tothe public bus companies exposure to potentially losing all of their routes in 2019, the clear contradiction between this position and the Ministers recent comments on the future strength of both Companies going forward can only be reconciled by verifiable definitive assurances as part of any potential solution to this dispute”.
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