Lower-paid civil servants have decisively rejected the Croke Park deal on public service pay and reform.
Members of the Civil Public and Services Union (CPSU) voted by 67 per cent to 33 per cent against the agreement. There was a turnout of 74 per cent in the ballot, which was counted this afternoon.
CPSU general secretary Blair Horan said that members did not trust the Government and that while the priority given to the low paid under the Croke Park deal for restoration of pay scales was beneficial, members did not believe that it would be delivered.
The CPSU is the first trade union to vote against the Croke Park deal in a ballot.
Two other Civil Service unions, the PSEU and the Association of Higher Civil and Public Servants, have strongly backed the deal.
The executive of seven other public service unions have urged members to vote against the deal. However the executives of Siptu and Impact, which have the largest number of members in the public service, are backing the agreement.