Now it emerges that SIPTU are fighting for Hanney to retain her €4,800 p.a. allowance as a Transport Liason Officer.
It really beggars belief that the VEC CEOs were in receipt of such an allowance in the first place. I mean, did they put in for the black or blue shoe allowance too?
And now even though the work has been taken over by Bus Eireann, and the erstwhile CEOs have been scattered to cushy roles without even the vaguest connection to transportation other than their own daily commute, their union still wants the guts of €5k to paid be over every year. Legitimate expectation dontcha know …