City Council Strike On Monday

portlairge

next week starting at 00.00hrs on monday morning all outdoor staff in the city council ard downing tools e.t.c for all out strike... so no bins, no water dept, no traffic wardens, no litter wardens.... and pickets on all city council buildings excluding the fire station and the cemetary..for obvious reasons.

Sully

Ah great, so I can park where I want on Monday and get away with it

What are they on strike for? I assume there not getting paid enough.

portlairge

there is a number of issues on the table cant really post here but it could be a long one...

south

so will my bin be still picked up monday morning at 9am?

Aquos76

Ah happy days so, a free for all with regards to parking through out the city centre.

portlairge

south wrote: »

so will my bin be still picked up monday morning at 9am?

no it wont as ALL outdoor staff are on strike and unless there is a last minute intervention which looks unlikely it wont be collected all week or the week after .. get my drift.

Sully

When people go on strikes dont they usualy tell the public WHY they are going on strike? Its hardly a secret, is it?

Adyx

The strike has been called off due to the death of a city council worker so don't go nuts with the parking lads. No date set for the strike to be on yet.

Aquos76

Yeah, WLRfm reported this on the Six o Clock news last night, but I though that portlairge knew something else, when he posted this thread after half seven yesterday evening.

RIP to the worker that died.

south

portlairge wrote: »

no it wont as ALL outdoor staff are on strike and unless there is a last minute intervention which looks unlikely it wont be collected all week or the week after .. get my drift.

sorry i should of read the post properly "00.00"

Adyx

Aquos76 wrote: »

Yeah, WLRfm reported this on the Six o Clock news last night, but I though that portlairge knew something else, when he posted this thread after half seven yesterday evening.

RIP to the worker that died.

Well thats where I got my info from too so maybe portlairge does know something. It doesn't sound like something they'd change their mind about though.

portlairge

the strike has been posponed as a mark of respect to jim sheeran. jim worked as a probably one of the most regonisable council workers he was responsible for keeping our streets clean in the city center. may he rest in peace.

Adyx

Indeed. RIP

JohnC.

portlairge wrote: »

the strike has been posponed as a mark of respect to jim sheeran. jim worked as a probably one of the most regonisable council workers he was responsible for keeping our streets clean in the city center. may he rest in peace.

Was he the guy with glasses, fairly thick dark rimmed ones IIRC?

Cabaal

Sully wrote: »

Ah great, so I can park where I want on Monday and get away with it

I'd imagine the Gardai will be out to make up for this kinda stuff

Aquos76

Cabaal wrote: »

I'd imagine the Gardai will be out to make up for this kinda stuff

Afaik, they dont have the authority to do so, unless you are parked in an illegal way, ie.. loading bay or double or single yellow lines, which has always been the case anyway.

Sully

Aquos is pretty accurate. Afaik its the traffic wardens job to man the car parks!

portlairge

no ye are all wrong there.. the city council write and impose the traffic bye laws for the city and yes the traffic wardens do carry out these parking bye laws but the gardai are also enpowered to carry out the same offences as stated in the bye laws.. they can give a ticket for non display of a valid parking disc but they dont do it on a daily basis because that is what the wardens are there for. but when the wardens are not around guess what the gardai issue the fines.

personally coming from a man on the know.. well ex now

Sully

Interesting to note! Thanks for that!

Aquos76

We cant even get the Gardai patrolling out streets properly, I cant see them having any interest in handing out parking tickets to cover traffic wardens who are on strike. That would therefore suit the Corpo down to the ground. While their traffic wardens are on strike, they are still making money from parking fines

Abit like management doing the work of workers who are out on strike. Gardai I guess would be scabs then. Cant see it happening to be honest.

portlairge

any monies from fines issued by the waterford/kilkenny gardai goes back into the waterford/kilkenny garda division... and not to the city council...

Aquos76

So are the Council workers actually on Strike today?