999 call staff go on work to rule

Emergency call operators will commence a month-long work to rule from today. 

The industrial action at the Emergency Call Answering Service (ECAS) at Navan, Co Meath, is over pay and union recognition.

The Communications Workers Union said Conduit Global, who run the service, could have avoided the 12-hour stoppage that ended at 8pm last night — the company had turned down an invitation by the Workplace Relations Commission to attend talks aimed at averting the strike action.