The pickets are placed at an Intel site in Leixlip, Co Kildare and Pfizer in Grange Castle, Co Dublin.
STRIKE ACTION IS underway by mechanical workers at an Intel site in Leixlip, Co Kildare and Pfizer in Grange Castle, Co Dublin.Mechanical workers have been there from 6am this morning and will remain until the close of business.
HA O’Neil Ltd, a company that provides mechanical engineering services to industrial sites around the country, launched a High Court action this week aimed at preventing its workers who are members of the Unite trade union from taking industrial action.
The company also claimed that the Labour Court last year issued a recommendation that there was no reasonable basis to recommend concession of the union’s claims to have the travel allowance restored.
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