Following a day of strike action and the threat of further stoppages, workers at South Dublin County Council have won back payments that were cut from their salaries in April. The Labour Relations Committee was involved in conciliating the dispute between the council and the trade union which argued that the employers had infringed the national public sector agreement by imposing the cuts.
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