Oberstown work stoppage to protest assaults on staff

Staff at Oberstown youth detention centre will today stage another work stoppage, for eight hours, to protest what their union describes as “poor safety measures and increasing assaults on campus”.

The Impact and Siptu trade unions have served notice of further stoppages, on September 5, 12, and 19.

Oberstown staff staged a four-hour stoppage in May, during which residents had to be 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.