Eighteen days in and the strike appears to be nearing its end.
SIPTU has said that it hopes bus services will resume Tuesday after ongoing talks at the Workplace Relations Commission.
More talks between unions and management aimed at ending the dispute are set to take place Monday, with one of the unions saying that they are determined to find a resolution to the dispute “one way or another”.
Willie Noone, Transport Sector Organiser with SIPTU has said that he expects progress to be made, and that he expects to come out of the talks tonight with a definite proposal ready to be put to a ballot.
It wasn’t all positive news, however, as Noone also said that, “there will be job losses. I’m not going to comment exactly at this particular moment in time but we are talking in excess of 120 and possibly way more than that”.
General secretary of the National Bus and Railworkers’ Union (NBRU) Dermot O’Leary maintains that the workers will remain resilient.
“We’re 18 days on the picket line now and the longer it goes on the more resilient those people become,” he told on RTE’s Morning Ireland.
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