‘Days’ to agree plan to avert garda strike

The Department of Justice may have only days to formulate offers to avert garda strikes — with both staff associations set to hold their executive meetings towards the end of the week.

These meetings — by the Garda Representative Association on Thursday, and the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors on Friday — are to inform executive committee members of the result of talks with the department and finalise plans for strike action, beginning on Friday, November 4.

It is thought that little progress has made to date on the substantive issues of pay and association negotiation rights and that talks will intensify in the coming days.