Staff at a Tesco store in Cork, Ireland have agreed to suspend industrial strike action pending talks with the Labour Relations Committee (LRC) later today (30 April).

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Workers were due to begin strike action yesterday over management plans to force pay cuts and reduce workers’ entitlements.


The workers trade union Mandate was last night invited to attend a meeting with the Commission at 15:00 pm today in Dublin in a bid to resolve the issues.


A spokesperson for Mandate told just-food: “It [suspension] was on the basis that the company and the union go into the LRC with no preconditions. So basically the talks are a fresh start.


“Mandate is hoping that all the agreements in place with Tesco at the moment will be continued.”

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It is understood the meeting could continue for three days.


Tesco was not available for immediate comment as just-food went to press.

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