The Independent Workers Union is inviting taxi drivers in Ireland to take our survey found https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TaxiWorkerCoop on the taxi industry. Taxi giants sell the idea of

While the recent Employment Regulation Order (ERO) for the security industry is a welcome step in the right direction, it falls very short of fundamentally changing the terms and conditions of workers or assisting with the cost of living crisis in any meaningful way. The increases are simply not enough for working people to get by and are a slap in the face for workers who have families and loved ones to care for.

The long-delayed ERO came into effect on the 4th of September. The primary improvements to the terms and conditions of security workers that it put into effect were as follows:

1. Rate of pay to be adjusted to be
   1. Rate of pay to be adjusted to be

07/09/2023

Today, all remaining Iceland Stores across the Republic of Ireland, have been closed. The workers were given no notice of closure, and were told via phone call to

On Saturday (26th August), SIPTU announced that the sit-in of the Iceland Waterford store would come to an end after claiming to have reached an agreement with the Examiner that the workers would receive “their statutory entitlements and all monies that were owed to them”.

The Sit-In began after the Waterford store was closed, with only 30 minutes notice given to the staff.

In their statement, SIPTU stated that statutory redundancy and other entitlements would be fast tracked. Concerned that this may be an indication of unequal treatment of workers by Metron Stores Ltd., the IWU sought clarification from the court-appointed Examiner, JW Accountants, who confirmed that IWU, SIPTU and non-union Iceland staff are all going through the same process.

The process, as it stands, is that workers may participate in a collective redundancy negotiations, either individually or through their Union. However, through pressure from the IWU, the company has agreed to offer a waiver which would accelerate any redundancy application. However, the issues of outstanding monies remain. The company is still refusing to acknowledge significant sums of money owed to its workers and has yet to make any commitments to resolving this matter.

The IWU finds it concerning that SIPTU has presented this state of affairs as a victory. It is unfortunate that the Waterford workers have ended their sit-in, as this reduces their leverage for negotiating the payment of their outstanding wages and annual leave pay.

The IWU was also surprised to read the RT

Today members of the IWU employed by Metron Stores Ltd. (trading as Iceland), were present in High Court for the presentation of the most recent report of the Examiner on the company. Donna Grimes, who has participated in the Talbot St. store occupation since being laid off without notice, gave the following statement on behalf of the workers and the Union:

“Judge Quinn,

My name is Donna, and I have a statement I wish to make.

Since 16th February, Project Point Technologies Ltd, with Mr Naeem Maniar as Director, bought 100% of shares of Metron Stores Ltd for 1 euro.

The company then made underpayments and changes to the running of the company. This included cost cutting measures such as the closure of head office. This included modification to the rostering and clock in system, and ultimately also unilateral changes to the workers’ terms and conditions.

We worked some weeks and received half our wages or nothing at all.

Then, and closer to the request for examinership, we saw all of our holiday hours get modified by the company and be told we don’t have any.

Unlike other areas of law , there is nobody we would call upon to rectify the matter speedily. As a result, over 300 Iceland Foods Ireland staff began to suffer.

Not only did we suffer financially when our direct debits bounced, or we had to take loans to survive or go into overdrafts and be penalised by it, we also suffered with anxiety and stress from a lack of any uncertainty about our futures.

Many of us became members of the IWU and, with their assistance, discovered a number of things.

The company from day 1 of take over did not pay rent to many landlords, nor did it pay their energy bills, commercial rates, or, in some cases, even suppliers. This, alongside the refusal to pay correct wages, caused huge and obvious alarm as it revealed a level of premeditated calculation.

Now, Judge, we are at a hearing in August, and there are still thousands owed to the workers. The company, meanwhile, continues to delay the redundancy process.

On the other hand, the examiner stated that in writing that when the company placed stores such as Coolock and others on temporary layoffs, the affected workers could seek redundancy. This, 2 months later, also has not happened.

Meanwhile, the long awaited for cases for thousands of euros worth of payment of wages in the WRC are also being targeted by the company for adjournment.

Judge, on behalf of the biggest human stakeholders in this entire process and those who continue to occupy the Talbot St store, we ask for justice.

We ask for orders to be issued compelling the company, which, with its cash reserve exceeding 300,000 euro, can afford to settle all outstanding wage issues and unfair dismissals.

We ask for justice for the ordinary workers who have been the victims of a most sinister and devious series of events.

Judge, will you give us justice?”

Tomorrow, Tuesday 18^th July 2023, IWU members in the Iceland Ballyfermot store will be going out on strike. This decision was taken due to the ever worsening conditions developing in the Iceland stores and the continued refusal of the company, Metron Stores Ltd., to deal with the IWU, the representative union of Iceland workers.

With Iceland stores closing all over the country, there has been no communication from the company to its workers regarding which stores are next to close. Instead, the company opts only to inform the workers of individual stores of their immediate lay-off on the day of closure. This is creating a situation of unacceptable uncertainty for Iceland workers, leaving them unsure if they will have a job in a week

As security companies rake in super profits from contracts all over the country, the workers have been left behind. Many are on sub-par wages, often even below the low

Following a failure by the Health Service Executive to resolve the matter with the Union, Independent Workers Union members across three HSE Housekeeping grades will be raising complaints to the Workplace Relations Commission regarding the flawed implementation of the Phase IV of the Job Evaluation Scheme for HSE Support Staff.

The members raising these complaints are from across three hospitals:

• Cork University Hospital
• Letterkenny University Hospital
• University Hospital Limerick

The Job Evaluation Scheme, which was re-established in April 2017, was intended to examine the work undertaken by support staff and to determine whether there had been any changes to the size and scope of responsibilities and necessary skills relating to the fulfillment of support staff roles. Phase IV, which covered the housekeeping grades, began in September 2020. However, due to COVID-19 and the cyber-attack on the HSE, the evaluation was not completed until May 2022.

In December 2022, the results of the Evaluation were released. Only six grades out of the grades included in Phase IV were deemed

The scheduled strike action by Independent Workers Union members in the Tallaght and Ballyfermot Iceland stores has been temporarily postponed. This is following commitments by the employer, Naeem Maniar, to resolve all outstanding grievances, namely regarding monies owed and health and safety in the workplace.

It has been agreed between our members and the employer, that a grace period of seven days will be allowed in order for these matters to be addressed. Should the workers

11/05/2023

Members of the Independent Workers Union based in Iceland stores in the Dublin area have served strike notice on their employer for May 19^th 2023.

At the beginning of the year, the operations of the Iceland supermarket chain in the Republic of Ireland were sold in their entirety to a new owner, Naeem Maniar. Since this transfer of operations, the Iceland stores have continued to operate under the same name, however the conditions for the workers in these stores have significantly deteriorated.

Since the transfer of undertakings to the new owner, many of the workers have been consistently paid incorrectly. This has meant that some workers have not been paid for all hours worked, some are not receiving payslips, some have had emergency tax applied despite years of service, and some have not received their annual leave or sick pay entitlements. This has accumulated to at least