BoI staff meet to avert strike

Bank of Ireland is due to resume talks with its computer support workers today in an effort to avert tomorrow's planned one-day stoppage.

Around 300 workers in the Bank of Ireland subsidiary ITSIS are planning to go on strike over the bank's plans to outsource their jobs to the US computer firm Hewlett Packard.

The bank has signed a seven-year, €600m deal with Hewlett Packard, but the ITSIS workers have only been guaranteed employment with the computer firm for two years.

The workers are also concerned that the outsourcing of their jobs will lead to a deterioration in their terms of employment.