Economy

This BDC commends those unions actively pursuing pay increases for their members through collective bargaining or through challenging employers who refuse to bargain by all methods available to them including direct action such as protests, work to rule and...

This Conference acknowledges: the success of the Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI) since its establishment in 2012 the significant and valuable contribution that NERI has made to the trade union movement by way of quality and relevant research; the...

Mindful of the unprecedented changes that have taken place in the banking sector since 2008which have not only included the major convulsions associated with the widespread restructuring of key institutions but also the substantial transformation in the...

This conference notes that high levels of unemployment, wage devaluation and wage cuts, regressive taxation, reactionary labour market policies, cuts in public sector employment and increasing rents have all contributed to increasing levels of poverty and...

Conference notes that in the Republic, the government and its allies are now portraying the current economic and social conditions as a this recovery, however, Creating a labour market permeated with precarious employment and in-work deprivation.Burdening...

The effects of cutbacks on public expenditure and increased revenue raising took over out of the economy of the Irish Republic between 2008 and 2015. Not surprisingly, the consequence has been a downturn in economic demand and huge social consequences such as...