Gama staff to negotiate returning to work

PROTESTING workers at multinational construction firm Gama yesterday voted to negotiate a return to work after five weeks of unprecedented demonstrations over allegations of wage fraud and underpayment.

In the dispute’s first major breakthrough, workers will allow SIPTU to seek certain guarantees from Gama which, if conceded, will pave the way for full-scale Labour Relations Commission (LRC) conciliation talks to begin.

Exploratory talks, held separately between both sides, were held over a week ago. However, an LRC invitation to full-scale conciliation talks between both sides had been frustrated by the workers’ refusal to return to work.