Labour Court rejects union's 3% pay claim at Eurowest

In 1992, the Labour Court found that the 3% wage increase sought by Services Industrial Professional Technical Union at Eurowest Limited was not warranted. It recommended that the company consider changing its bonus scheme to let general operatives earn a bonus independently of boners and trimmers. The recommendation was signed on 8 December 1992. The company said its productivity bonus scheme already included the local-bargaining element of the P.E.S.P.; the union said workers had received no payments from it. Eurowest operated a beef-deboning plant in Athy, Co Kildare.