TEEU welcomes massive turnout by members and support from other construction workers for first day of strike July 6th, 2009. The Technical Engineering and Electrical Union says the national strike has been a major success in terms of turnout by members in the electrical contracting sector and the support they have received from construction workers in other unions. The union is also applying today to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions for an all-out picket at locations where it is in dispute. TEEU General Secretary Designate Eamon Devoy said this morning, “Our members have sent a very clear signal to the employers by their actions this morning that they will not be rolling over and meekly accepting cutbacks to bail out developers and speculators. The turnout has been far more eloquent than anything I can say and I hope the message has now gotten through to the hawks in the electrical contracting employer associations and their friends in the Construction Industry Federation that our members were not engaged in some elaborate game of bluff over the past 15 months. “We are determined to defend the Registered Employment Agreement system, which has served this state well since the 1930s. We remain available for serious negotiations, as we have been since April 2008. If the employers wish to engage, now that they can see the alternative to procrastination is industrial action, we will be happy to oblige them. If not, the pickets will remain in place and we will now be seeking to consolidate the support we are already receiving from other workers through an application for an all-out picket from ICTU today.” Below are some of the principal sites affected. Names in brackets refer to electrical contractors on those sites. Dublin: Kingswood City West (Seamus Byrne Electrical Contracts), Kingswood City West Conference Centre (Laragh Electrical Contracts), Pfizers in Pottery Road, Dun Laoghaire (Philtron), Terminal 2, Dublin Airport, (Mercury Engineering, Suir Engineering and Dornans), Lansdowne Road Stadium, (Mercury Engineering, Kentz, Phelan Electrical), Point Village, (Patrick Lynch Limited, Winthrop Engineering), New Criminal Courts Complex, Infirmary Road, (O’Kane Engineering), Burlington Hotel, (Designer Electric), Microsoft, Clondalkin, (Mercury Engineering), National Conference Centre, (Mercury Engineering), St Vincent’s Hospital, (Patrick Lynch Limited, H A O’Neill Engineering) Guinness’s Brewery, (Brooklyn Engineering), Tokeda, Bray (O’Kane Engineering). Cork: Pfizers in Rigaskiddy, (Philtron), the new Bord Gais power station Whitegate, (Dornan Engineering), ESB Generating Station Aghada, (Kirby Electrical), Mercke Sharp and Dohme in Carlow and Clonmel, (Suir Electric), Eli Lilly, Kinsale, (Dornan, O’Shea Electrical). Others: ESB Moneypoint, Mercury Engineering, Hegarty Electrical), Corrib (Mercury Engineering, Hegarty Electrical).