Nearly 8,800 days lost due to strike action in Q2

Strike action taken by workers at Dunnes Stores and Dublin Bus was the main cause of nearly 8,800 individual employee work days being lost during the second quarter of this year.

New quarterly data, published yesterday by the CSO, shows that a total of 8,792 work days were lost due to industrial disputes between the start of April and the end of June.

Three disputes were measured, concerning 10,100 workers.