Strike averted as SIPTU agrees deal with hotel group

SIPTU has withdrawn the threat of strike action by its 700 members working in the Great Southern Hotel group and agreed to Labour Court recommendations on the sale of the group.

The union had threatened the industrial action because of the deadlock with the owners of the hotels, the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA), over employee entitlements, ahead of the sale of the chain.

It was demanding that the DAA would ensure any new owners would continue to comply with existing collective agreements and maintain existing pension entitlements, reckonable service and reckonable pay.