No-confidence bid binned as Scanlon quits

COMMUNICATIONS Workers Union general secretary Con Scanlon would have had to face a motion of no-confidence at a meeting of the union’s executive had he not decided to resign.

Mr Scanlon, who is also deputy chairman of Eircom, announced his intention to resign two weeks ago and will leave the position of general secretary in three months’ time.

However, it emerged last night that members of the CWU 22-member executive had drafted a motion of no-confidence in Mr Scanlon and were informally seeking support for it in advance of the union’s biennial conference in Galway this week.