SIPTU gives go-ahead for 24-hour strike at Dairygold
The union, which represents most of the 2,500 workers in the dairy processing giant, is in dispute with the co-op over its procedural agreement. As both sides adopted firm positions yesterday, it was confirmed that a strike at the company's pig farms will begin on Monday the day before the major work stoppage.
SIPTU's Mitchelstown branch secretary Anne Egar said Dairygold's consistent breaches of its industrial relations procedural agreement have left the union with no alternative but to take industrial action. "We asked the management to work with the current agreement until such time as the three main areas of concern to our members were addressed," she said.
