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Staff at the Oberstown child detention centre in Ireland have called off their planned 48-hour strike after reaching an agreement with management on safety concerns. The staff, represented by the Fórsa trade union, had been planning the strike over concerns about the conditions at the centre. However, after constructive engagement from all sides, an agreement was secured, and the strike has been called off. The agreement provides a clear roadmap for addressing the remaining safety concerns in a structured and time-bound way. The ultimate goal is to make Oberstown safer for everyone and to ensure that is achieved in a sustainable way. The proposals agreed upon will help move the centre closer to this goal.
Staff were planning 48-hour strike from Monday over concerns around conditions in child detention centreFórsa said on Saturday evening that members had voted to accept the proposals with industrial action paused.
Members staged a 12-hour strike at Oberstown, the State’s only child-detention centre, on Tuesday and were planning a 48-hour strike from next Monday. Deaths of Irish woman and husband in hot tub in Spain may have been accidentalOne striking care worker on Tuesday said “the core issue” of the industrial action was “the safety of the young people inside and the safety of staff working in a challenging environment”.
The person said a number of workers “have been injured” on the job, are “out on long-term sick leave” or “have had to take early retirement” due to the work. Fórsa national secretary Hazel Nolan on Friday confirmed that constructive engagement from all sides had secured an agreement.
“Our progress today was clearly helped by a demonstration of the political will required to move this difficult dispute forward,” she said in a statement. “A clear roadmap has now been agreed, providing a basis for addressing the remaining matters in a structured and time-bound way. “This has been a complex dispute. The ultimate goal is to make Oberstown safer for everyone and to ensure that is achieved in a sustainable way.
The proposals agreed today will help move us closer to that goal,” Nolan said. Deaths of Irish woman and husband in hot tub in Spain may have been accidentalFormer RTÉ presenter Keith Walsh sues broadcaster for ‘unfair dismissal’Male arrested after man found dead next to seriously injured child in Co Tyrone
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