Irish Daily Mirror

Somefin fishy going on over staff dispute

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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?

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