Notice to Members
Planned protest march for Wednesday July 23rd
The National Bus & Rail Union has been engaged in an intensive campaign since May in an attempt to reverse the Fine Gael/Labour decision to privatise 440 bus jobs.
All communication from this, and other concerned parties, to the NTA and the Fine Gael and Labour Ministers have thus far fallen on deaf ears. The NTA told this Union in January 2014 that staff issues were not their concern.
The march was intended to increase the pressure on the powers that be to listen to the concerns of workers and the travelling public with regard to the ideological privatisation of essential services.
The National Transport Authority will now attend talks on Wednesday 23rd July 2014 at the Labour Relations Commission. Worker and Union pressure has succeeded in getting them to the negotiating table.
In order to facilitate these talks, the protest march planned for Wednesday 23rd at 11 am has been suspended.
The fact that the NBRU has lodged a pay claim for bus workers is testament to the modest wages currently received and we will not negotiate lower industry rates that will undermine all our jobs nor will we allow two political parties, namely Fine Gael/Labour to orchestrate a race to the bottom in the bus industry.
Issued by the National Bus & Rail Union