MEMBERS OF SIPTU who are employed at Ireland\u2019s largest dementia facility have agreed to defer Monday and Tuesday\u2019s strike action, following receipt of an invitation to the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC).<\/p>\n
On Friday, trade union Siptu announced an escalation in industrial action, with a 72-hour strike by members from St Joseph\u2019s Centre, Shankill, County Dublin planned from Monday 27 July.<\/p>\n
Siptu said that the escalation was because of the \u201congoing failure of management to regrade and pay the workers rates that recognise the duties they currently carry out, such as feeding residents\u201d.<\/p>\n
St Joseph\u2019s Centre, which is part of St John of God services, is the country\u2019s largest care home dedicated solely to dementia care.\n<\/p>\n
In a statement, St Joseph\u2019s Centre said it was disappointed at Siptu\u2019s decision to strike and is concerned at the union\u2019s classing of the strike action as an \u201cescalation\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis may cause unnecessary concern for residents, Day Care members, families, colleagues and the wider community,\u201d the statement read, adding that it wishes to resolve matters quickly and constructively.<\/p>\n
However, following receipt of an invitation on Saturday to attend talks at the WRC, the strikes which were planned for Monday, 27 July and Tuesday, 28 July, have now been postponed.<\/p>\n
However, if no progress is made at the WRC, the strike action planned for Wednesday, 29 July, will go ahead.<\/p>\n
Members who are employed as household\/domestic staff at St Joseph\u2019s Centre have already undertaken three days of strike action earlier in July on the dispute over pay.<\/p>\n
In June, SIPTU members voted in favour of industrial action in a ballot on the Union\u2019s claim for the regrading of household\/domestic staff.<\/p>\n
Over 80 people use the centre daily.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur members met on Friday evening and agreed to defer the action at the request of the Workplace Relations Commission,\u201d said Siptu organiser Michelle Waller.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe welcome the invitation by the Workplace Relations Commission to engage and hope to be able to make progress on the issues in dispute at Tuesday\u2019s conciliation conference; however, in the absence of progress, Wednesday\u2019s proposed action will proceed,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEMBERS OF SIPTU who are employed at Ireland\u2019s largest dementia facility have agreed to defer Monday and Tuesday\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26663,615,61,1557,60,43,20167,239214,6465],"class_list":["post-567994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-dementia-care","tag-dublin","tag-ie","tag-industrial-action","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-siptu","tag-st-josephs-centre","tag-workplace-relations-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}