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Union subs ceiling raised
by Eoin Ronayne
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Private pay rises three times faster than public
by Bernard Harbor
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Palestinian youth tells of incarceration
by Mehak Dugal
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Unions mobilise against politics of hate
by Bernard Harbor
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Passport opens doors at work
ICTU/IBEC launch workplace passport scheme for workers with disability
by Niall Shanahan
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Employers join four-day week debate
by Hazel Gavigan
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One Galway quiz night
by Mehak Dugal
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Aer Lingus pay talks underway
by Bernard Harbor
 

Fórsa and other unions are engaging with Aer Lingus management on a successor to the current pay agreement for non-pilot staff. The current 39-month deal winds up at the end of next June.

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CE supervisors target candidates
by Bernard Harbor
 

Community employment (CE) supervisors attended the Fine Gael constituency offices throughout the recent Dáil bye-election campaign to quiz candidates and existing TDs about the Government’s failure to reconvene the Community Sector High-Level Forum and find solutions to long-standing grievances.

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Unions warned of post-PSSA pay limbo
by Bernard Harbor
 

The possibility that no public service pay agreement will be in place to follow the current deal when it expires at the end of next year has been raised by Fórsa at a meeting of ICTU’s Public Service Committee.

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2020 private sector pay target up to 4.5%
by Niall Shanahan and Mehak Dugal
 

The Private Sector Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions is advising unions in the private sector to seek baseline pay increases ranging between 3.5% and 4.5% in 2020.

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Huge underreporting of harassment revealed
by Hazel Gavigan
 

Just one in every five people who experience sexual harassment in their workplace report it, according to a new survey by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU).

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Call for green new deal
by Róisín McKane
 

Ireland needs a total rework of its ideas about economic development if we are to achieve a ‘green new deal,’ according to Maynooth academic Dr Lorna Gold.

 

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Parties unite to block low pay protection
by Bernard Harbor
 

Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil senators united last week to block a Seanad bill that would have strengthened protections for low-paid workers in shops, hotels, restaurants, hairdressing and catering.

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