Threatened disruption to rail services in Munster has been averted after Siptu today agreed to defer industrial action at Iarnrod Eireann.
Both management and the union have agreed to meet at the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) tomorrow after some 200 rail workers threatened to strike over the dismissal of a colleague.
All services out of Cork and Mallow would have been affected, meaning Cork commuter services and intercity routes from Cork and Tralee to Dublin, and Cork to Tralee w ould have been hit.
This could cause difficulties for those planning to attend U2 at Croke Park and the Munster Final in Thurles.
Siptu served strike notice a month ago accusing management of failing to reinstate a member found to have been unfairly dismissed by the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) last January.
Iarnród Éireann said the man was sacked following an internal investigation into "irregularities" involving a ticket collector in Cork. Despite the dismissed man winning a case at the EAT the company intended to exercise its legal entitlement to appeal to the Circuit Court.
A company spokesman accused Siptu of "seeking to inflict unnecessary disruption on the travelling public and our freight customers in order to divert the process of appeal".
Following a meeting of members in Cork today, the parties agreed to a meeting tomorrow morning at the LRC.