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Friday, 16 January 2015

Union Jostling for Power

http://www.northernsound.ie/news/local-delegates-secure-meeting-with-the-president-of-vidrala-for-next-week/


The ideal of a Union for workers is wonderful as a paper exercise but in reality does nothing.  Either you work for an ethical company or not.
What the UNION  really does for most companies is cause strikes and go slows when the Management is not playing ball with them.

Will the unions stop any redundancies should Vidrala go down that route?
The answer is "NO". 
Have they any power to stop layoffs and redundancies and the answer is “NO".
Would they call for a strike and once again the answer is no even if the employees wanted to strike.
We've seen how they behaved during the Paul O'Brien days of tyranny and they did little to support the workers.
Remember how UNITE had union members (dubious guys in the pay of Aventas) outside Quinn Group property even after the deal with QBRC was agreed. 
All they did was take the Dues of the workers and probably a backhander as well  from Aventas .
The community have more faith in the Local Group meeting Vidrala than any UNION.
Remember SIPTU when they had the so called Secret Bank Account that nobody knew nothing about.
Local delegates have secured a meeting with the President of Vidrala to discuss its acquisition of the former Quinn Glass business and all possibilities going forward.

It was confirmed earlier this week that the Spanish owned glass company acquired Encirc’s manufacturing plants in Derrylin and Elton as well as the filling operation at Elton for 408.6 million euro.
A local group met with QBRC yesterday to discuss their options and they’re concerns were relayed to the President of Vidrala.
A meeting has since been confirmed with the President of Vidrala for next week.
Meanwhile trade union UNITE say it is the only body that can negotiate on behalf of workers at the Derrylin plant.
They represent 70 per cent of the work force there and have also received assurances from Vidrala.
Eugene McGlone Regional Co-ordinating Officer with Unite says they are the professionals (ha Ha) and it is their role to negotiate terms and conditions for workers.(what a joke)http://www.northernsound.ie/news/local-delegates-secure-meeting-with-the-president-of-vidrala-for-next-week/

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