SIPTU will place official pickets outside the European Commission's headquarters in Dublin on Tuesday and Wednesday next week, unless a dispute over staff pay claims and union recognition is resolved.
Four administrative and information staff members took industrial action and protested outside the European Union House in Dawson Street yesterday. Mr Terry Cowap, branch secretary, said that European Commission representatives were refusing to negotiate with SIPTU.
A spokesman for the Commission said local employees' rates were set everywhere in the EU on the basis of local pay rates for similar work.