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FAS members accept LRC proposals

Date Released: 29 May 2006

SIPTU members at the state training and employment agency FÁS, have voted by 98 per cent to accept peace proposals from the Labour Relations Commission to end the dispute over compulsory decentralisation. Previous attempts to resolve the six week long dispute foundered after the Department of Finance sought to put preconditions on negotiations that would coerce FÁS employees into moving to Birr.

The union’s branch organiser, Greg Ennis, said after this afternoon’s ballot that talks at FÁS on decentralisation would now take place on the same voluntary basis as at other semi-state agencies. He reiterated the union’s call for all semi-state agencies to be removed from the current decentralisation programme by the Government.

Meanwhile SIPTU General President, Jack O’Connor, has called on public representatives in Dun Laoghaire, and other interested parties, to attend a public meeting tomorrow evening on the issue of decentralisation at 6.30pm in the Assembly Room, County Hall, Marine Road.

SIPTU representatives and members will be explaining their concerns about the effects of the current decentralisation plan on the operation of semi-state agencies, their staff and the families of staff. “There is an urgent need for full public debate on this issue of vital importance - one which ultimately threatens jobs, families and communities,” Mr O’Connor said.





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