Ahern out of touch, say unions

UNIONS expressed concern yesterday the Taoiseach’s office “doesn’t have its finger on the pulse” in a continuing Greencore dispute.

The Technical Engineering and Electrical Union (TEEU) says it believes the Department of the Taoiseach wrongly assumed the long redundancy issue between employer and workers had been resolved.

The union, representing Greencore’s Irish Sugar workers, said it can only speculate as to the reasons for a long delay in the National Implementation Body issuing a ruling on the dispute.