Frantic efforts to avert electrical strike

THE Labour Relations Commission has 48 hours to avert indefinite strike action by 10,500 electricians which could grind all the country’s major construction projects to a halt from Monday.

The Taoiseach’s main third-party industrial relations mechanism, the National Implementation Body (NIB), yesterday intervened in the dispute, asking both sides to return to the Labour Relations Commission.

“In view of the potential for very serious disruption across the economy, the National Implementation Body has considered the threatened dispute in the electrical contracting sector,” the NIB said in a statement last night.