Industrial Relations

Time to hold business accountable for their impact on human rights and the environment!

Below is a guest blog from our colleague, Isabelle Schömann, ETUC Deputy General Secretary, on this Friday's vote to hold businesses accountable for their impact on human rights and the environment. The European Council will deliberate and vote on this legislative proposal on Friday 9 February...

NI workers make history in mass protest over pay

Tens of thousands of public sector workers made history on January 18th, on what was the largest single day of strike action ever in NI. Unions attended rallies in Belfast and Belfast, Derry, Omagh, Magherafelt, and Enniskillen. Many of the workers have not had a pay increase for 3 years and took to...

Opening Statement on the Regulatory and Legislative changes required for Transposition of Adequate Minimum Wages Directive

24 Jan, 2024

Owen Reidy, General Secretary addressed the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment on the Regulatory and Legislative Changes required for the Transposition of the Adequate and Minimum Wages on 24 January 2024. Watch the Committee meeting here: https://www.oireachtas.ie/en...

IBEC call for a halt in employment improvements wrong and shameful

ICTU General Secretary Owen Reidy has said, "IBEC’s call today for a halt in progress on employment rights is unacceptable and shouldn’t be tolerated. Many workers in Ireland remain seriously affected by the cost-of-living crisis. The NMW has increased this year but it should be remembered that this...

Owen Reidy's message ahead of a massive day of strikes in NI

At today’s Executive Council meeting of the ICTU unanimous support was voiced for all our Northern Ireland affiliate unions engaging in industrial across Northern Ireland tomorrow. Speaking after the meeting Owen Reidy General Secretary of Congress stated, “All our affiliate unions in the Republic...

ICTU concern at 20% job cuts at RTE

The Executive Council of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions has expressed grave concern at RTE's proposals to reduce staff by 20% as part of the strategy announced by Director General Kevin Bakhurst this week. At it's monthly meeting, the Executive Council expressed solidarity with the RTE Group of...

ICTU group of unions announce strike action

Health workers in the community and voluntary sector to commence indefinite strike action The ICTU group of unions representing health and community workers, employed in community and voluntary sector agencies funded by the HSE and other state agencies, have announced that indefinite strike action...

Human intelligence must dictate AI at work - Séamus Dooley

Labour history conference to hear call for ILO Convention on digital transformation The need for national governments, European and international organisations to develop a right based approach to the application of artificial intelligence in the workplace has been stressed by Séamus Dooley...

Stop the Stigma

Time to Stop the Stigma ! At our Women’s Conference last September 2022, in the shadow of Slieve Donard – the highest of the Mourne mountains - a group of determined women vowed to remove the issue of menstruation and menopause in our workplaces from the shadows. In response to motions from Fórsa...

Presidential address to the Biennial Delegate Conference

Kevin Callinan – Presidential address to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Biennial Delegate Conference, 4 July 2023 in Kilkenny Delegates and friends Twenty months ago at the close of our last BDC in Belfast, I said that if we continued to fight yesterday's battles we would lose tomorrow's war. It...

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