Tag: ni water
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Water workers end industrial dispute after accepting long overdue pay offer
Unite warns Northern Ireland Water cannot remain a low pay employer Members of Unite employed in NI Water and NI Water Alpha have voted decisively to accept a pay offer providing a five per cent increase and a one-off payment of £1,500. The pay deal was for the 2023-2024 fiscal year and has already been…
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Water workers suspend industrial action following pay offer
Industrial action suspended after finance minister signs off on business case Waterworkers in Northern Ireland have today agreed to suspend planned industrial action due to commence on Tuesday 10 December. Unions will now ballot their members on the proposed pay offer which includes a five per cent pay increase and a one-off payment of £1,500.…
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Unions warn minister pay deal delay for water workers will lead to strikes
Unite – GMB joint trade union press release NI Water and NI Water Alpha employees in Unite and GMB preparing to take industrial action Trade unions Unite and the GMB have warned finance minister Caoimhe Archibald that she risks a potentially disruptive strike in the water and waste water service. The warning came after unions…
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Secretary of State budget cuts threaten to devastate water quality and pose public health risk
Department for Infrastructure equality impact screening document countenances end of waste water cleansing and likelihood of sewers exploding into homes, businesses and onto public streets Unite the union has condemned punitive budget cuts enforced by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Chris Heaton-Harris, after a report emerged revealing that the Department for Infrastructure is…
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Campaigners to demand NI Water intervene with their contractor Murphy International to reinstate ‘Murphy 4’
Press Notice What: Campaigners to leave in letter to NI Water demanding intervention When: 10.30am Monday 15th May Where: NI Water HQ, Westland Road, Belfast Campaigners seeking the restoration of four Unite members, including a shop steward dismissed by he the Murphy group’s Irish subsidiary are to demand NI Water intervene with Murphy International, a…
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Executive must bring forward water infrastructure investment across NI
Regional Development committee briefing paper on drainage identifies need for large investment in NI Water infrastructure as previously called for by Unite NI Executive could finance investment through ring-fencing portion of higher council tax receipts December 22nd: Jimmy Kelly, Ireland Secretary of Unite, has said that an Assembly report ‘Living with Water Programme’ provides further…