Support for ‘fair conditions at work’ among parties of left and centre – Congress
Little or no support for Charter from Fine Gael or Renua
by Macdara Doyle
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Congress has engaged with all political parties and groupings, along with many individual TDs, senators and MEPs in order to build support for the Charter. |
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The Irish Congress of Trade Unions revealed last week it had found overwhelming support for its Charter for Fair Conditions at Work among political parties, with Labour, Sinn Féin, Fianna Fáil, the Social Democrats and socialist deputies signing up, while there was little or no support for the Charter from either Fine Gael or Renua.
The Congress Charter for Fair Conditions at Work set out five key principles to help make decent work a reality: a Living Wage, Fair Hours of Work, the Right to Union Representation, the Right to Respect in the workplace and Fair Public Procurement.
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IMPACT members urged to support Caring - At What Cost? campaign
Risk of workers being ‘left out of the recovery’
by Niall Shanahan
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IMPACT has launched a campaign aimed at restoring pay to workers in the community and voluntary sector. The campaign, Caring- At What Cost?, is calling for pay restoration for community and voluntary sector workers, through the gradual restoration of funding cuts in the agencies where they work. The union represents up to 5,000 members in the sector, and is seeking the support of IMPACT members throughout the country to support the campaign.
IMPACT organiser Joe O’Connor explained, “Within these organisations employees are increasingly expected to do more with less and for less. These services continue to lean heavily on the individual commitment and efforts of staff to keep things going, but that’s not a sustainable approach. Services cannot survive like that, and staff can’t continue working under these circumstances. Better working opportunities are emerging in other sectors, and then the challenge for service providers becomes one of retaining staff. We need the wider IMPACT family to get behind this campaign in order to make sure these workers aren't excluded from the recovery.”
The grassroots campaign is targeting TDs which is asking workers, agencies, representative bodies, other stakeholders in the sector, as well as the wider public, to sign the petition on the campaign’s website, and write to their local TD.
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Four Lives – IMPACT trade union’s roots in the 1916 Rising
A new IMPACT booklet marking the centenary of the 1916 Rising
by Niall Shanahan
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Four Lives – IMPACT trade union’s roots in the 1916 Rising |
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IMPACT has launched a new booklet marking the centenary of the 1916 Rising: Four Lives – IMPACT trade union’s roots in the 1916 Rising. It tells the stories of four participants in the 1916 Rising, each of whom were members of IMPACT’s forerunner organisations.
Four Lives features the stories of Eamonn Ceannt, Seán Connolly, Harry Nicholls and Con O’Donovan. Ceannt, Connolly and Nicholls were workers and trade union members that played distinct roles in the events of the Rising. O’Donovan was a student who later became an activist and was elected to the highest office in his trade union.
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