Low-paid workers reject pay deal

THE union representing low-paid workers in the public service has become the first to reject the Croke Park deal on public service pay and reform.

After a three-week ballot, the leadership of the Civil, Public and Services Union yesterday announced that 67% of those who had voted had opposed the deal.

The union’s general secretary Blair Horan said CPSU members did not trust the Government and did not believe its commitment to start restoring the pay cuts imposed on low-paid workers in last December’s budget.