Summer transport strikes ‘inevitable’

COMMUTERS will be faced with massive rail and bus disruption this summer unless Transport Minister Seamus Brennan scraps his plans to break up CIÉ, union leaders warn.

The majority of CIÉ workers in the SIPTU union voted for strike action yesterday, in protest at the plans.

SIPTU workers are against the move because they believe it could threaten their job security and ruin the public transport system, in the same way that privatisation wrecked the British public transport system.