LRC ordered to intervene in electricians row

LESS than 72 hours after its mediation failed to resolve the pay dispute between electricians and their employers, the Government has ordered the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) to intervene for a third time.

Electricians will today mount pickets for a third day at high-profile companies and construction sites around the country, protesting at employers’ refusal to increase their pay by 11% from €21.49 to €23.98.

At the Irish Congress of Trade Unions biennial delegate conference in Tralee yesterday, the ICTU executive gave the go-ahead for members of other trade unions at the picketed sites to be balloted to join the members of the Technical Electrical and Engineering union on their protest.