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UNI Global Union joins with Mandate Trade Union in condemning in the strongest possible terms  Dunnes Stores management for targeting staff who participated in the nationwide strike earlier this month.

Mandate has received reports from members all over the country who have experienced:

Dismissals
Cuts to hours
Changes in roles
Changes in shift patterns

Gerry Light, Mandate Assistant General Secretary said, “As a very last resort, and with no other option available to them, our members in Dunnes Stores took legitimate and reasonable industrial action. 
 
“All they want is for their company to meaningfully engage with them through their union, with the objective of creating decent working conditions. Now, their employer is blatantly targeting people with the hope of intimidating their own loyal staff and turning them away from any future trade union activities,” said Light.
 

 “This behaviour by management in Dunnes Stores is deplorable and despicable and must be condemned by everybody,” he concluded.
 
Light added the actions by Dunnes over the last five days has only strengthened the resolve of Dunnes workers who are now more determined than ever to achieve their objectives of decent work.
 
Head of UNI Commerce, Alke Boessiger said the whole UNI family stood with Mandate and the Dunnes workers, "The reported actions of Dunnes managment is wholly unacceptable. This kind of behaviour shows how important it is that workers stand together and are backed by a union like Mandate that can give them a voice. We are proud of the workers for resisting and urge Dunnes managment to desist and put their house in order."