Workers at Bord na Mona plant to strike on Monday

SIPTU members at a Bord na Móna-owned power station in Edenderry are going ahead with 24-hour industrial action on Monday .

John Regan of SIPTU said: "The company entered into talks on a pay increase of 3.5% in April 2014.

"In early 2016, it derailed the process at the Workplace Relations Commission by stating that a collective agreement between the union and management did not cover pay negotiations.

"This resulted in it claiming that SIPTU representatives did not have a right to represent its members in pay negotiations."

The Union claims workers in Edenderry have not received a pay increase since 2007, even though "they are working for a subsidiary of a semi-State company which has recorded profits of €85 million in the last three years."