Somefin fishy going on over staff dispute
YOU have to hand it to bosses at TK Maxx in Arklow who really know how to spoil their workers.
Faced with the threat of a strike, they went out and bought employees two goldfish.
A union claimed staff are low paid and have insecure work terms but added the “company reluctantly gave a small pay increase, began issuing two-week rosters and gave some workers 20-hour contracts”.
It added TK Maxx also bought two goldfish for the Co Wicklow store as a “peace offering or inducement not to partake in trade union activities”.
No gold but plenty of fishy goings-on when it comes to workers’ rights in Leo’s Republic of Opportunity.
WHO said old crafts and trades were a thing of the past?
At Termonfeckin Beach, Co Louth, last Saturday there was a “Taylor, a Chandler and even a Mason”.
While no one might want their offspring to do an actual apprenticeship in the above, it seems an increasing number of parents name their children after them.
I reckon if there was a pop star called Blacksmith that name would be heard in creches or is that cobblers?