CPSU executive to recommend pay deal rejection

THE executives of unions representing 107,000 public servants have rejected the public service pay and reform deal hammered out in Croke Park two weeks ago.

The mounting opposition to the deal comes as the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), in its latest Quarterly Economic Commentary, has warned that to date investors in Ireland have been impressed with the country’s fiscal adjustment with relatively little industrial action but that sentiment will be lost if the deal unravels and the country descends into industrial unrest.

Yesterday, as was widely expected, the executive of the Civil Public and Services Union (CPSU), which represents low paid workers in the civil service, voted unanimously to recommend rejection of the deal to its 13,000 members.