Industry CorrespondentTalks will take place on Thursday aimed at averting a potential strike by hundreds of home-help staff just before polling day in the general election. The trade union Siptu had balloted members working in a number of organisations providing home-help services which it maintained did not honour the terms of an agreement on pay restoration reached last year. About 50 Section 39 organisations were covered by this agreement. Trade union Siptu has commenced balloting members in these Section 39 organisations for industrial action in recent weeks. Earlier this week trade union Fórsa said its members in a small number of section 39 agencies were to be balloted for industrial action as part of the campaign for pay restoration.

Source: The Irish Times January 29, 2020 20:15 UTC