TEEU welcomes Labour Court recommendation as vindication of its campaign with pay increases due from September July 11th, 2009. The Technical Engineering and Electrical Union has welcomed the Labour Court recommendation on the electrical contracting dispute. The TEEU General Secretary Designate Eamon Devoy said this evening, “We welcome the acknowledgement by the Labour Court that our members are entitled to an increase that was frozen from April 2008 and withheld at a time when the sector was still buoyant. “The Court recommended that our members, who have endured a two year pay freeze should be paid the 4.9 per cent they are due in two phases. It has recommended that the increase that should have been paid in April 2009, if the process had not been disrupted by legal challenges, should be looked at as part of a review of the Registered Employment Agreement to be completed in four months. “It also contains a non-victimisation clause to ensure that no action is taken by employers against our members who have been on strike for the past week. “Our executive will be meeting tomorrow morning to decide our course of action at this point in the dispute. However any decision we make tomorrow will be conditional on how the employers react to the recommendation. We hope that all the employer bodies will act responsibly and accept the outcome, including the appeal from the Court to continue upholding a system that gave us a generation of industrial peace and which can do so again if it is allowed to.”