Dunnes Stores workers in line for 3% pay increase

Despite ongoing tensions between management and staff which saw a one-day stoppage last month, Dunnes Stores is understood to have signed off on a 3% pay rise for its workers.

Mandate trade union, which represents 5,000 of the company’s 10,000 staff, welcomed the company’s decision to confirm “concession” of the claim at in-store communications meetings with its employees.

However, the union said the pay increase “must be implemented with secure, banded-hour contracts for it to be meaningful”.