Dunnes workers ballot on dispute

Workers at Dunnes Stores are to begin balloting on industrial action over the company's rejection of a Labour Court recommendation…

Workers at Dunnes Stores are to begin balloting on industrial action over the company's rejection of a Labour Court recommendation.

Members of the unions representing the Dunnes Stores workforce - Mandate, SIPTU and the MPGWU - will begin voting on Monday. The ballot will take about three weeks.

The court's recommendation, issued on August 22nd and rejected by the company in September, called for all employees to receive double time for work on the four Sundays preceding Christmas.

Mandate's general secretary, Mr Owen Nulty, said the unions had told Dunnes Stores they were willing to look at an alternative formula to the one recommended by the Labour Court provided it was at least equal in value.