Labour relations body crosses the line

The Government has asked Kieran Mulvey, the chief executive of the Labour Relations Commission, to meet with the public service union leaders to see if the Croke Park 2 proposals, so firmly rejected in the recent round of ballots by the union membership, can be revived.

Mr Mulvey should refuse to act as a Government agent in this manner.

To characterise his intervention as a normal part of his industrial relations’ brief is disingenuous, to say the least.