Service Providers to Trade Unions

Conference instructs the incoming Executive Council of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions to adopt a position to ensure that companies supplying products and/or services to affiliates respect their employees entitlement to avail of union representation and collective bargaining. Companies engaged by affiliates should be expected to meet the minimum standards of a decent employer. These standards should facilitate: Union membership. The development and training of union activists. Access to staff via site visits and inductions. Union representation at individual grievance and disciplinary meetings. Union recognition and collective bargaining. Affiliates will undertake a review of companies engaged to provide products and services to ensure that they meet these standards and that, where necessary, the appropriate union is facilitated to organise that workplace. Adopted

Communications Workers Union