Public Sector Strike Suspended After Unions Agree Pay Deal

Thursday's public sector strike has been suspended. Its after unions agreed overnight to a draft wage hike of 10.75 per cent.

The pay deal will run until March 2029, and sees some payments backdated to when the last wage agreement expired in June. It also contains additional provisions for lower paid public sector workers.

For more on this, Clare-based Paramedic and MidWest representative on the Irish Ambulance Representative Council, Orla Considine and Former ASTI President and St. Joseph’s Kilkee Community College teacher Geraldine O’Brien joined Alan Morrissey On Wednesday's Monring Focus.

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