Efforts to avert a strike at Premier Dairies as famers left with milk and Dublin customers have no deliveries.
Minister for Labour Michael O'Leary arrives for negotiations at the Labour Court with representatives of Premier Dairies and the Irish Transport and General Workers Union (ITGWU) to avert a strike which will leave most of Dublin without milk from midnight.
The milk strike is threatened because indoor workers at Premier Dairies, who are ITGWU members, want extra Sunday payment as a condition of accepting a Labour Court recommendation. The wage claim made by staff is on a management proposal to rationalise the whole door to door milk delivery.
There is little hope of a settlement in time for the 1,800 suppliers, who had no collection this morning. Some 60,000 gallons of milk are left to waste, leaving at least 120,000 Dublin homes and shops without deliveries. Even if settlement proposals are reached over the weekend, there will be no milk available for distribution.
The intense negotiations at the Labour Court collapsed shortly before midnight.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 27 September 1975. The footage shown has natural sound.
