Item 113 - Department of Agriculture insemination scheme dispute correspondence

11pp

Correspondence sent by J.J. Nash of Thurles sent to Father Hayes regarding a dispute over the employment of 'lay inseminators' and 'cattle breeding assistants' by the Department of Agriculture. Includes:
-Enclosing letter from Nash stating that in June 1952 the Department began an insemination scheme covering North Tipperary, most of South Tipperary, County Kilkenny, most of County Laois, and portions of counties Wicklow and Carlow. Inseminators were trained and employed; those who were originally engaged in meat inspection and had their training paid for by the department were called 'lay inseminators' and paid £8.15.0 while those who had no departmental employment were called 'cattle breeding assistants' and paid £7.5.0 (both group received the same training). These operations were transferred by the Department to the South Eastern Cattle Breeding Society on 1 October 1953, after which the salaries were reduced to £8 and £7, respectively. After Nash was appointed as an acting secretary for the inseminators and approached D. O'Mahoney, Secretary of the Society, regarding the tone of the Society's notification letter, all inseminators were terminated on 17 October 1953, and their positions were put out for by the Society with no terms of salary advertised. (28 October 1953, 3pp);
-Copy of the form notification letter sent to inseminators by D. O'Mahoney, Secretary of the South Eastern Cattle Breeding Society, stating that the Department and the Society have come to terms on the administration of the insemination scheme, the inseminators will cease to be employees of the Department on 1 October 1953, and that the Society is prepared to re-employ the inseminators at the above reduced salaries (12 September 1953, 1p);
-Copy of the letter sent by Nash to O'Mahoney regarding the terms offered, outlining the work each inseminators perform versus their expenses and compensation, and asking the Society's committee to consider the inseminators' discussion points as listed in this letter (7 October 1953, 5pp);
-Copy of the letter sent by Nash to O'Mahoney upon learning that the inseminators' discussion points from the previous letter were dismissed without notice, in which he asks whether the committee objects definitely to the inseminators organising (28 October 1953, 2pp).

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