WORKERS AT FLAHAVAN\u2019S will vote on whether they should strike over a pay agreement the union says it didn\u2019t negotiate.<\/p>\n
The Flahavan\u2019s mill and factory are based in Kilmacthomas, Co Waterford.\u00a0The company produces half of all oats sold in Ireland.<\/p>\n
Between 12 and 21 August employees who are members of the union Unite will vote on whether they should strike.<\/p>\n
The union says an extraordinary general meeting was held over the weekend, where members expressed concern that Flahavan\u2019s was trying to tie a new pay deal to a \u201cflexibility agreement\u201d that was \u201cneither seen nor negotiated by Unite\u201d.<\/p>\n
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: \u201cOur members\u2019 dedication and expertise have made Flahavan\u2019s a household name throughout Ireland.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt beggars belief that it has chosen to tear up normal industrial relations procedures and demand workers sign up to an unseen and unagreed policy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Unite regional officer Eoin Drummey said a resolution \u201cis in Flahavan\u2019s hands\u201d.<\/p>\n
He said the union will engage with the company \u201cif it withdraws its insistence that the acceptance of a new flexibility policy forms part of the new pay deal\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WORKERS AT FLAHAVAN\u2019S will vote on whether they should strike over a pay agreement the union says it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,266381,19,31824,17,266382,13269,11799,5049],"class_list":["post-630532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-eire","tag-flahavans","tag-ie","tag-industrial-action","tag-ireland","tag-n-oat-good","tag-strike","tag-unite","tag-waterford"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117072447812733189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}