WRC to seek resolution to Oberstown campus dispute

The Workplace Relations Commission will this morning seek a resolution to the dispute over health and safety at the Oberstown Children Detention Campus which yesterday saw occupants locked in their rooms for four hours due to a staff work-to-rule.

According to campus management, the residents were locked in their rooms from 8am to 12pm, could not go to school, and could only be given breakfast when some staff agreed to break with the industrial action.

Impact and Siptu say the stoppage, due to be repeated each Tuesday in June, is against a background of a “high and growing” number of attacks on staff since thecentre expanded to facilitate the transfer of offenders from the prison service.