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[i]Irish turf officials vote
for industrial action
BY RACING POST STAFF 6:18PM 5 FEB 2010
TURF Club officials on Friday voted by an overwhelming majority for industrial action in their dispute over threatened salary and expenses cuts, and changes to contractual and working conditions.
The vote was taken following a three-hour meeting in a County Kildare hotel, after which a spokesperson for the officials said: "The vote for industrial action was carried overwhelmingly, by an 87.5 per cent majority, and our trade union, Mandate, will now officially give notice to management of our industrial action intention."
The raceday officials involved include; starters, judges, handicappers and stewards' secretaries. A strike would force the Turf Club to use either part-time workers or cancel race meetings.
Denis Egan, Turf Club chief executive, said: "We are very surprised officials have voted for industrial action and are still prepared to sit down with them in anattempt to try to come to some solution. It's a situation that simply has to be resolved."
In his weekly diary on HRI's goracing.ie website, Ireland's champion jumps trainer Willie Mullins said: "It was sad to see the Turf Club and its employees in the Labour Court this week. I have to say the team of people on the ground involved in the day-to-day running of Irish racing, the starters and clerks of the courses and so on, is the best team we've ever had."
Mullins also referred to the controversial start at Bellewstown last year, when the lack of experienced manpower for a Saturday evening meeting backfired.
He said: "There was an incident at Bellewstown when there was no established starter available because of a roster issue and a race went off without the favourite, so a lot of other things would want to be cut before our
for industrial action
BY RACING POST STAFF 6:18PM 5 FEB 2010
TURF Club officials on Friday voted by an overwhelming majority for industrial action in their dispute over threatened salary and expenses cuts, and changes to contractual and working conditions.
The vote was taken following a three-hour meeting in a County Kildare hotel, after which a spokesperson for the officials said: "The vote for industrial action was carried overwhelmingly, by an 87.5 per cent majority, and our trade union, Mandate, will now officially give notice to management of our industrial action intention."
The raceday officials involved include; starters, judges, handicappers and stewards' secretaries. A strike would force the Turf Club to use either part-time workers or cancel race meetings.
Denis Egan, Turf Club chief executive, said: "We are very surprised officials have voted for industrial action and are still prepared to sit down with them in anattempt to try to come to some solution. It's a situation that simply has to be resolved."
In his weekly diary on HRI's goracing.ie website, Ireland's champion jumps trainer Willie Mullins said: "It was sad to see the Turf Club and its employees in the Labour Court this week. I have to say the team of people on the ground involved in the day-to-day running of Irish racing, the starters and clerks of the courses and so on, is the best team we've ever had."
Mullins also referred to the controversial start at Bellewstown last year, when the lack of experienced manpower for a Saturday evening meeting backfired.
He said: "There was an incident at Bellewstown when there was no established starter available because of a roster issue and a race went off without the favourite, so a lot of other things would want to be cut before our
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"They're extremely efficient, and give me great confidence inthe integrity of Irish racing."
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Can we not just sack these **kers. You hardly need to be a genius to be a starter.
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a trained chimp could be a starter.
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sacking the judges and replacing them with chimps would surely reduce hri's outlay on port.
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A typically ill informed and arrogent comment from the forum chameleon "thegalwayman".
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biting the hand that feeds them, will only result in less and less people going to racing.
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Is tiis what HRI wants to tax the punter for.............to give salary increases to guys who cant supervise the integrity of racing, cant eliminate the corruption and cant impose compulsory 12 month bans on all owners,trainers,jockies and stable staff involver in stopping horses and fixing racing.
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Speaking to a few people at Naas on Saturday they tell me they are on mad money and very generous X's.
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Interesting blog from Brian O Connor on this issue on irishracing.com
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