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Budget Travel Update

24 December 2009: Your union met with the Administrators Mazars this week to get some clarity on issues outstanding from the collapse of Budget Travel. read more

Budget Travel Update

15 December 2009: A request has gone from this office to the "Administrator" that has been appointed to deal with the recent "Budget Travel" collapse. read more

Swedish bosses set up secret company as they sack Irish workforce

30 November 2009: Swedish bosses at collapsed Budget Travel set up a secret shell company in Dublin just two days before they started sacking their Irish workforce, the TSSA travel union revealed today. read more

Swedish owners must not walk away from Irish responsibilites

25 November 2009: The Swedish parent company of Budget Travel must pay proper redundancy terms to its dismissed workforce and ensure Irish holiday makers are looked after, the TSSA travel union said today. read more

Sacked Budget Travel lodge mass unfair dismissal claim

30 October 2009: Over 70 sacked Budget Travel staff lodged unfair dismissal claims against the Scandavian owned travel company in Dublin today. read more

Vikings return to Dublin to axe Irish jobs

28 October 2009: Sacked staff from Scandanavian owned Budget Travel staged a "Vikings pillage Dublin again" protest outside the company's HQ in Lower Bagot St today. read more

Budget Tells Sacked Staff To Leave Without Any Pay Offs

23 October 2009: Budget Travel began closing 14 shops throughout the country today amid angry scenes with staff being told they would not get their redundancy cheques. read more

Budget Closes 14 Shops with 48 Hours Notice

22 October 2009: Swedish owned Budget Travel told union leaders today it would close 14 of its shops in the Republic on Saturday afternoon. read more

Scandanavian Firm Plans To Axe Irish Jobs Without Pay Offs

20 October 2009: A Scandanavian owned travel firm has been accused of acting "like modern day Vikings" after it announced plans to sack one in three of its workforce without any compensation at all. read more

Budget Travel must get back to talks

20 October 2009: Statement by Willie Penrose TD - Labour Party Spokesperson on Enterprise Trade and Employment. read more

Budget Travel talks collapse

19 October 2009: Peace talks at Budget Travel broke down last night after the company said that 1 in 3 of the 75 facing the sack would receive no redundancy payments... read more

Budget Travel halt closure programme after union protests

6 October 2009: Budget Travel halted the immediate closure of eight of its threatened 14 shops this week after protests from the TSSA travel union and politicians. read more

Budget Travel axes eight shops this week

5 October 2009: Budget Travel was strongly criticised today for announcing the closure of eight of its threatened 14 shops just days ahead of peace talks at the Labour Relations Commission. read more

Budget Travel must halt closures pending LRC hearings

5 October 2009: Statement by Willie Penrose TD - Labour Party Spokesperson on Enterprise Trade and Employment. read more

Budget Travel starts shop closure plan despite peace talks

5 October 2009: Budget Travel closed its Dundalk store today just four days ahead of peace talks at the Labour Releations Commission in Dublin. read more

Budget Travel jobs cuts go to LRC talks next week

2 October 2009: Both sides in the Budget Travel shop closures dispute agreed today to conciliation talks at the Labour Relations Commission next Wednesday. read more

Budget Travel must enter serious negotiations with employees

2 October 2009: Statement by Willie Penrose TD - Labour Party Spokesperson on Enterprise Trade and Employment. read more

Swedish Boss flies in to Irish jobs row

1 October 2009: Millionaire Swedish travel boss Andri Mar Ingolfsson flies into Dublin today as the row grows over his plans to close nearly half of all his Budget Travel shops in Ireland. read more

Budget Travel will close 14 Irish shops in next four weeks

25 September 2009: Swedish owned Budget Travel have told union officials that they would go ahead and close 14 shops and axe 95 jobs in Ireland in the next four weeks. read more

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