Politics

Irish Water workers reject Darragh O’Brien’s offer of talks to avoid national strike

All water service workers in the Siptu trade union are due to stop their work next week

Darragh O’Brien, the Minister for Housing and Local Government, said he had written to the unions for water service workers to call for negotiations to avoid the strike.

Water service workers have rejected an offer of talks to avoid next week’s national water strike.

All water service workers in the Siptu trade union are due to stop their work next week, on June 7 and June 8, in what would be the first national water strike of its kind in decades.

An all-out strike action by water service workers in councils would disrupt public water supplies because they are crucial to the daily ...