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Wed 07 Jul 2007Unions urge staff to shun Eircom redundancy packageWorkers at Eircom have been advised by their trade unions not to co-operate with a €66 million voluntary redundancy programme until the result of a strike ballot is known.Unions at Eircom are in dispute with the company over its failure to implement a 2 per cent pay rise on May 1st, which was due under the terms of Towards 2016.