ICTU President highlights need for collective bargaining rights at SIPTU conference

by | Mar 30, 2022 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2022

ICTU President, Kevin Callinan, called for a focus on securing collective bargaining rights for workers in Ireland and protecting living standards in the face of a record high inflation rate, at the SIPTU Biennial Delegate Conference in Sligo,...

Irish Equity backs call for collective bargaining legislation at SIPTU conference

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Irish Equity has expressed its support for motions passed at the SIPTU Biennial Delegate Conference in Sligo which call for legislation to secure collective bargaining rights for workers in Ireland in line with those available in the rest of the EU. Irish Equity...

SIPTU to seek private sector pay rises in line with inflation

by | Mar 29, 2022 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2022

SIPTU Deputy General Secretary, Gerry McCormack, said his union members will make “no apology” for seeking pay rises which ensure workers and their families standard of living is not eroded by a record high inflation rate which he warned could...

President Michael D Higgins tells SIPTU conference that unions to lead workplace and social change

by | Mar 29, 2022 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2022

President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, has called on trade unions to lead workplace and social change in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic in a speech to the SIPTU Biennial Delegate Conference today (Tuesday, 29th March). President Higgins said;...

SIPTU conference told community workers to begin protest campaign on 11th April

by | Mar 29, 2022 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2022

SIPTU Deputy General Secretary, John King, has told the union’s Biennial Delegate Conference that members within the community sector will begin a national campaign of protest, industrial and strike action aimed at ending “the neglect of...

SIPTU conference calls for collective approach to overcoming gender pay gap

by | Mar 28, 2022 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2022

SIPTU members will use collective bargaining to close the gender pay gap according to a motion passed unanimously at the union’s Biennial Delegate Conference in Sligo today (Monday, 28th March). Proposing the motion at the conference, SIPTU activist...