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SIPTU National Executive Council Statement on the Lisbon Treaty Referendum

03.09.2009
The National Executive Council of SIPTU met today to discuss the Lisbon Treaty and the forthcoming referendum.

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File icon  Post Lisbon Treaty Pamphlet (doc, 337 kb)

Lisbon vote shows Government must address workers concerns and heal wounds says SIPTU leader, Jack O'Connor. See attached pamphlet for more information.

SIPTU statement on Lisbon Treaty

09.06.2008
“We believe next Thursday’s referendum on the Lisbon Treaty entails a critically important decision for the Irish people, for workers in Ireland and perhaps for the people of Europe as well.
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SIPTU will not support what it terms “a watered down” version of the Lisbon Treaty that exposes workers to its “Free Market” aspects, while denying them the benefit of “balancing measures” which are integral to it. The Union’s National Executive Council decided today to insist on a Government commitment to legislate for a right to the benefits of “proper collective bargaining” (including prohibition of discrimination against workers seeking to exercise it), before lending its support to the Treaty. The Union’s General President, Jack O’Connor, said “that entitlement to the benefits of collective bargaining and all that went with it was enshrined as a Fundamental Right in the ‘Charter of Fundamental Rights’ which are now an integral part of the Treaty. It constitutes one of the key ‘balancing elements’ to a Free Market proposition and it will apply to workers in virtually every other country in Europe – but the Irish Government have not made any commitment to legislate for it.” See attached booklet for more information.

SIPTU Statement on Lisbon Treaty

12.12.2008
Commenting on the conversation at the EU Summit in relation to the Lisbon Treaty, Jack O’Connor, General President of SIPTU, Ireland’s largest trade union, said today:
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