Much the same as last week, Tranportforireland.com is providing up-to-date real time travel information for anyone who needs an alternative route to work, with major routes across Dublin expected to be very busy over the next two days.
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This is in addition to the planned action for Tuesday, March 8, which is International Women’s Day and on St Patrick’s Day on Thursday, March 17. Normal service will resume on Saturday 20th February at 6.30am.
These people in Dublin explained how they will be affected by the stoppage.
SIPTU said the strikes will ‘encourage the company to try and find a solution to this dispute’.
Luas workers are looking for payment increases of between 8.5% and 53.8% over a number of years.
But with the two sides so far apart, sources say even experts like the Workplace Relations Commission and the Labour Court are reluctant to convene talks, as at this point, it would be an exercise doomed to failure.
Eoin Reidy from the SIPTU union said that drivers are standing firm.
‘Owen Reidy has been invited on numerous occasions by myself and others to seriously look at the claim’. “I believe if they sit down and talk with the company and together with their union officials and representatives, they should be able to strike an agreement”.
“I appreciate that the headline figure is very ambitious and unprecedented”, said Reidy.
A spokeswoman for Transdev said: “We have been saying since January that we are willing to engage on pay claims”.
Meanwhile, the company has taken out adverts in national newspapers today reminding customers of the service disruption.
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However, with a St Patrick’s Day strike having the potential to cause huge disruption, it is clear that something will have to be done soon.
