Pay Bargaining Guidance for Unions in the Private Sector for 2024
The Congress Private Sector Committee has published Pay Bargaining Guidance for Unions in the Private Sector for 2024. The committee stated that based on an analysis of the prevailing conditions in the private sector of the economy the PSC believes that in 2024, it is appropriate for unions in the...
ICTU response to Budget 2024 – Some Positives but Some Major Pitfalls
ICTU General Secretary Owen Reidy acknowledged a number of positive measures in Budget 2024 but warned that the Budget contains some major pitfalls that will make it even harder to address the challenges facing the country. Mr Reidy said: ‘ICTU acknowledges and welcomes a number of positive measures...
Moving to a green economy must be 'fair and just' - Patricia King
This year has been characterised by extremes in our weather and a changing climate across much of Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. The European Union’s climate observatory confirmed that July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, while in Ireland, June was the hottest...
Union leaders discuss workers rights and constitutional change at the Oireachtas
The Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement discusses workers rights and constitutional change In attendance were Owen Reidy, General Secretary and Mr. Justin McCamphill, President of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) John Boyle, General Secretary Irish National...
'It should not be a tax cutting budget' Owen Reidy
Budget 2024 should mark the first step in building out a better economic model, predicated on inclusive and sustainable improvements in living standards. It should not be a tax cutting budget. Proposed cuts to income tax rates or bands and to the USC have all been flagged in the media. Such moves...
Presidential address to the Biennial Delegate Conference
Kevin Callinan – Presidential address to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Biennial Delegate Conference, 4 July 2023 in Kilkenny Delegates and friends Twenty months ago at the close of our last BDC in Belfast, I said that if we continued to fight yesterday's battles we would lose tomorrow's war. It...
