The 12 hour shifts were brought in for covid though. Covid is long over and they need to change back. Gardai rejected a new system and also have rejected a return to what they had before. I can see why theyād prefer the current system but refusing any change back from it seems unreasonable.
Is there a significant financial gulf between the two systems? Or whatās the reason he wants to revert?
Nurses and Guards rosters seem set up to suit the employee and not the service user
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4 days off is not compatible with the speedy investigation of crime.
Our old building had a cctv which picked up a fair few incidents over the years, so I got familiar with dealing with the guards looking for footage. Would often be a week in between them requesting the footage and then being back at work and calling in to collect it.
Theyāll have 4 days off in a row regardless of the roster
Imagine itās organisational rather than financial.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of it, surely Drew Harris is a lame duck now? Hard to come back from this
But the Garda bodies wonāt agree on any roster it seems. Itās not reasonable to insist on keeping the pandemic roster. Surely thereās a middle ground?
Harris hasnāt any interest in negotiating either. His fallback position is this roster (that he said himself last year wouldnāt work) and has been shown by the report in that article to be of no benefit. Imo, he wants to split the rank and file onto different rosters to dilute their negotiating power
Thatās nonsense heās asked the organisations to come to the WRC to negotiate a number of times.
He wanted to skip straight there rather than engage with the rep bodies in any meaningful way. Heās been led back to the table by the nose now
Iām sure I read or heard that theyāve had many many days of negotiations with no agreement in sight. So itās not skipping to the WRC, thatās the natural next step. Why would the associationās refuse to go there, itās the proper place for industrial disputes or negotiations to go to?
Who he sent, what he was authorised to negotiate and where that fella is now probably isnāt in what you seen or heard. If you want to entirely swallow the management line Iāll hardly change your mind
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Fair enough. I only see whatās reported from the outside looking in. But talks arenāt going anywhere and there doesnāt appear to be an openness to constructive talks so why not just go to the WRC. Seems unreasonable to me.
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That useless bint McEntee needs to actually do something for once and scruff Harris telling him keep the roster as it is, they have a cunt of a job why antagonise them if they are clearly content with the current roster.
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Sure in that case the whole teaching profession could decide they liked working from home during the pandemic and they want to keep doing it.
Easy for you to pontificate with your cushty number that isnāt even worth a fuck.
Fair and relevant point well made, good job mate.