Economy

Unions say public service pay offer “not credible” as low and middle earners struggle

A meeting of I CTU’s Public Services Committee (PSC) has backed the union negotiators’ view that the Government’s recent pay offer could not credibly be put to ballot while low and middle-income workers struggle with soaring prices, and that an improved offer was needed to make further talks on...

Public service pay talks: Government offer fell well short of inflation

Public service pay talks ended without agreement in the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) this morning (Friday) after Government proposals fell far short of 2021 inflation and projected 2022 cost-of-living increases. The talks were convened after the ICTU Public Services Committee invoked a...

Living Wage - 'A step in the right direction'

Responding to the Government announcement on the introduction of a Living Wage, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions General Secretary, Patricia King, said: 'Congress has consistently campaigned over many years for the introduction of a Living Wage, today’s decision is a milestone towards addressing...

Out-of-pocket expenses for workers are unnecessarily high

High prices and the rising cost of living are topics of conversation in every household the length and breadth of the country. Ireland was already the second most expensive country in the European Union before the ongoing inflation surge. In 2020, when the inflation rate was below 0%, the price of a...

The Social Wage

01 May, 2022

Government must do more to stop the squeeze on workers’ wages To mark May Day, an important day in the trade union calendar, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions has published a new report comparing the value of the Social Wage for workers in Ireland and the EU. The Social Wage is a measure of how...

Sky-rocketing executive pay revelations put workers’ campaign to counter-act inflation into perspective

Recent revelations about sky-rocketing pay packages being awarded to the chief executives of some of Ireland’s top companies put workers seeking pay rises to counteract the impact of 7% inflation firmly into perspective. These reports that the median pay of the chief executives of some of the...

Dr Laura Bambrick's eulogy to the PUP

The last payment of the PUP will be paid today (March 29 2022) as the emergency support comes to an end, almost two years to the day after it was introduced. The remaining 45,000 recipients will transfer over to the ordinary jobseeker’s benefit. The PUP was one of three income supports introduced in...

Call for a National Just Transition Commission

A newly formed alliance of trade unions, environmental and civil society groups has called for the immediate establishment of a national Just Transition Commission to develop an agreed blueprint for the zero-carbon transition, build public support for climate action and ensure that no worker or...

Private Sector Bulletin Feb 2022

23 Feb, 2022

Congress guidance for Private Sector Unions on Pay Bargaining in 2022.

Response of unions in the private sector to cost of living crisis

Today, Friday 11 February 2022, the Private Sector Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions met to review their guidance to unions on pay bargaining in 2022 in light of the upward price pressures and growing uncertainty regarding the trajectory for inflation. In December the Committee advised...

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