The 14 week Greyhound Recycling strike is over. Workers were at a meeting in Liberty Hall where the majority of them voted in favour of new cost cutting proposals.

They include improved redundancy terms for those who want to leave the company and compensation for those who are staying - as well as pay cuts of between 15% and 20%.

The agreement includes a redundancy package of two weeks pay plus statutory entitlements of two weeks per year of service for the workers who have decided to leave the firm.

13 of the workers who are remaining with the company will retain their previous terms and conditions.

These workers will work on a Dublin City Council contract to collect waste from social housing, and will be selected according to length of service at the company.

Those who are remaining there, but will not be working on the social housing contract, have agreed a wage reduction of between 15% and 20%.

These workers will also be compensated for the changes by receiving a payment of a sum equal to 30% of the redundancy package to which they would have been entitled if they were leaving.

Staff say they were locked out of their jobs since June 17th, when they refused to accept pay cuts of up to 35% that were implemented by the waste management company.

Employees have been picketing at the company depot in Dublin for the last three months over the plans.

SIPTU organiser Owen Reidy said "This agreement hopefully brings to an end a long and difficult period for the workers and their families. Throughout, the workers have remained united and it is this solidarity that has made an agreed solution to this dispute finally possible."

"The support that these workers received from communities throughout Dublin and local elected representatives was also instrumental in a solution finally emerging that was agreeable to both sides," he added.

Ray Reilly is one of the workers and says he hopes they can move on from this.