NBRU PRESS RELEASE

NBRU Reject Roster Proposals for January 10 Minute Dart Timetable

General Secretary Dermot O’Leary said:

“by issuing unworkable rosters the Company is setting its face against the long standing principle of not acting unilaterally whilst in a process recommended by the states foremost industrial relations institution, the Labour Court, which said that both the Company and the Unions should enter a process of negotiation on productivity, what is ironic here is the fact that it was the Company which advanced the notion of a 10 minute Dart Service as a productivity measure in the first instance”

Mr O’Leary went on to say:
“we have previously advised the Company that it was being presumptuous by announcing that a 10 minute Dart service would commence in January 2016 without advance consultation, it would now appear that Irish Rail have decided to embark on a collision course with drivers which will only serve to heighten tensions and runs the risk of reigniting the recent conflict which led to industrial action and trains not running for a number of hours”