FÁS workers call off industrial action over decentralisation

UNION members at State training agency FÁS called off industrial action last night after voting to accept proposals aimed at ending their dispute over decentralisation.

Under the decentralisation programme, 400 FÁS staff are scheduled to move from head office on Dublin’s Baggot Street to a greenfield site in Birr, Co Offaly by 2009.

Trade union SIPTU vehemently opposed the plan because members were told they would not be offered promotions unless they agreed to move.