Tradespeople to picket outside Intel site in Leixlip tomorrow in dispute over travel allowances [Video]

STRIKING PLUMBERS, FITTERS, welders and apprentices will mount a picket outside the Intel project in Leixlip, Co Kildare tomorrow in a dispute over travel allowances.

Unite members will strike tomorrow outside the Intel site as they continue action to “secure the reversal of the austerity-era cut to ‘travel time’”.

Pickets will be mounted from 0.01 am to 11.59 pm tomorrow outside the Intel project where members of the Mechanical Engineering & Building Services Contractors’ Association (MEBSCA) are carrying out works. 

It follows a picket outside the site of the National Children’s Hospital late last month.

Unite trade union members voted overwhelmingly in August for industrial action in pursuit of restoration of the first hour of ‘travel time’.

Payment of the first hour of ‘travel time’ was cut as a temporary measure following the 2008 financial crash.

This was due to be reviewed after a year but Unite said that workers are still waiting over a decade later.

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