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Electricians to ballot on industrial action

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  • #32
    2011
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,602 Mod ✭✭✭✭2011


    Regardless of your views on the situation there is a very good and balanced post on the political forum from someone in the industry that clearly knows what is going on:


    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=61027147&postcount=115


  • #33
    curraghyid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 345 ✭✭curraghyid


    thats about as close to reality as it gets.

    The rea has desperately needed to be renegotiated for quite sometime as an electical contractor and employer the levels of charging required to cover rates of pay travel allownce and subsistence payments were excessive and that includes during the boom years,

    Many of the companies i have tendered for contracts over the previous 5 years have been aghast at the costs associated with the electrical contracting industry, in comparison with the agreements in their own sector, and these are large multinationals who understand the balance of cost and output.

    in the current economic climate as a sparks earning €1000 a (working)39 hour week you are not doing to bad, so come on mr devoy lets have a little bit less of the marxism about the poor downtrodden sparks being exploited by the big 6 when the cosy cartel has rode roughshot over the electrical industry for the past 18 years with its rea.


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