The National Executive Council (NEC) of SIPTU met today in Liberty Hall, Dublin, to discuss the current energy crisis and its impact on the cost-of-living. The NEC unanimously resolved to ensure that workers and their families are protected during this enduring cost-of-living crisis and the impact of the current energy crisis that is eroding the wages and spending power of working people.
SIPTU’s NEC is calling on the Government to immediately meet with the representatives of the trade union movement to agree on the implementation of a suite of measures to ensure that workers are protected.
The NEC further resolved that SIPTU will support members in pay talks in all sectors of the economy, both the private and public sectors, including in the taking of industrial and strike action to ensure their pay and living standards are protected.
To all workers, including those who are not in a union, SIPTU says the best way to protect and advance your pay and working conditions is to bargain collectively through your union with your employer. Workers have collective power in a trade union.