Dunnes workersset to strike

The union representing up to 5,000 workers in Dunnes Stores has called on shoppers and other workers in the company not to cross the picket-line when it stages a one-day strike at stores on Easter Thursday.

Mandate trade union says the action on April 2, which it described as “initial”, will proceed unless senior management in the company agrees to meet workers “through their trade union” to discuss the range of issues in dispute. The union says its members want:

• The implementation of banded hour contracts to give workers security of hours and earnings;
• “Fair” pay for all workers;
• A review of what it said was excessive use of temporary employment contracts;
• Individual and collective representational rights.