Post office telephone maintenance workers are back on duty following a three week strike.
On 19 January 1976, post office engineering technicians in the Dublin area went on strike. This action was the culmination of a lengthy dispute between the engineering employees and the Department of Posts and Telegraphs over the parking of vans on a clearway near Harold's Cross.
The strike follows the suspension of 39 engineering workers in Dublin arising from non-compliance with an instruction from the Department of Posts and Telegraphs that vans were to be parked at a new depot at Walkinstown.
On 9 February 1976, the workers voted overwhelmingly to end their strike, agreeing to return to work at 8.00 am the following day.
A week long country wide strike was called off on 7 February 1976, and the 6,000 members of the Irish Post Office Engineering Union obeyed a directive to return to work.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 10 February 1976. The footage shown here is mute.
