SIPTU demands scrapping of decentralisation plans

SIPTU has demanded that the Government scrap its decentralisation plans and reiterated its position that its 1,600 members will not co-operate with any attempt to move them from their current locations.

A week after the Government was told by the Labour Court it could not use the threat of withholding promotion as a means of enticing workers to relocate from Dublin, SIPTU delegates representing almost 1,600 members in 16 semi-state organisations met in Liberty Hall to hear a report on the court’s recommendation.

Ironically that meeting was held on the same day that 100 staff from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment were relocated to an advance interim office in Carlow.