Unions representing workers in the CIÉ group of companies are to prepare a campaign to resist Government attempts to break up the company.
The eight unions have set up an "action committee to prepare a plan of campaign to protect public transport and put their case to members of the Oireachtas and the people", National Bus and Rail Workers Union (NBRU) general secretary Mr Liam Tobin said.
He was speaking this evening after five hours of intense discussions. The committee is to report back to workers on June 13th.
Mr Tobin said all the unions had agreed that no disruptive action would take place that would disrupt the Special Olympics or school exams.
Earlier this month the NBRU decided to defer plans for industrial action after receiving an invitation from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) to meet with other CIÉ unions.
The Minister for Transport's plans to break up CIÉ would establish Bus Éireann, Iarnród Éireann and Dublin Bus as three independent companies. Mr Brennan has also signalled his intention to open up 25 per cent of the capital's bus market to competition by next January.
