Efforts to resolve Irish Ferries dispute continue
With trade unionists in Wales preparing to hold a demonstration tomorrow, crew members are continuing to refuse to sail the Isle of Inishmore and the Ulysses.
Both ships remain stranded in Wales.
In Dublin, the Jonathan Swift is also still stranded as port workers threaten to block any Irish Ferries vessel from docking.
It is unclear though whether a privately chartered ship, hired by Carlow shipping agent Victor Treacy International, will be welcomed when it sails to Cork from France later today.
A meeting of SIPTU port workers in Cork yesterday made no decision on whether to impede the vessel which can carry up to 70 container trucks in each direction.
Such a move remains unlikely however, given the bad publicity that it would attract for the unions.
Meanwhile after five days of intensive effort, the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) has so far failed to come up with a peace formula.
However, the Government’s top industrial relations troubleshooting body - the National Implementation Body (NIB) - is understood to be considering possible solutions to the dispute.
