Talks at the Labour Relations Commission in an attempt to resolve a dispute over refuse services in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown council area of south Dublin have adjourned for the day.
The talks will resume at 2.30pm tomorrow.
Siptu has served strike notice over plans to outsource the collection of bins to Panda, an outside company. Siptu organiser Ramon O’Reilly said no progress had been made in the talks to date and the strike will start on Thursday unless the current deadlock can be broken.
The union said if the strike goes ahead it could spread to South County Dublin, Fingal and Dublin city.
It claimed the action was being taken “as a direct result of the unilateral decision of the Dún Laoghaire county manager, Owen Keegan, to end waste collection by direct labour”.