Irish ferries - a great struggle but a terrible deal

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:53:24 +0000
Irish Ferries, Minimum wage, SIPTU, Strikes, Workplace, National, Newspaper, Analysis

On December 14th the three week dispute at Irish Ferries came to an end. SIPTU claimed that the deal protects a "threshold of decency". Irish Ferries had offered redundancy to 543 crew members, who were to be replaced with staff employed on wages of just €3.60 an hour - less than half the national minimum wage.