Restoration campaign brings new scales
by Bernard Harbor and Niall Shanahan
Revised public service pay scales, which take account of the €1,000 pay adjustment brought forward to 1st April, are now in place. The new rates, agreed on foot of union demands for accelerated pay restoration, were being posted on the IMPACT website as this bulletin went to press.
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Water referendum hailed in Europe
by Bernard Harbor
The decision of a Joint Oireachtas Committee to recommend a constitutional referendum to underpin public ownership of Irish Water has encouraged campaigners across Europe, according to the leader of the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU). In an IMPACT blog marking World Water Day last month, EPSU general secretary Jan Willem Goudriaan said it was “big news for the European water movement” and “a huge encouragement for the many local and national groups fighting the privatisation of water services across the continent.”
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Common ground on health reforms
by Bernard Harbor
IMPACT has said it believes health unions could support many of the proposals put forward by health minister Simon Harris at the Oireachtas Committee on the Future of Health Care in late March. The union said it supported the view that the HSE could be significantly downsized, and that a small number of integrated regional health groups could better perform most of its functions while reporting directly to the Department of Health.
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Early education needs much more cash
by Niall Shanahan
IMPACT’s Early Education branch, launched at the end of last month, is to push for hugely increased state investment in the pre-school sector. The union says much more cash is needed to bring down costs to parents and improve services to children through the professionalisation of early education.
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Clerys settlement reached
by Lughan Deane
A settlement has been reached in the long-running Clerys dispute after members of the ‘Justice for the Clerys Workers’ group met with Natrium director Deirdre Foley. The resolution, the details of which have not been made public, follows an intervention by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Brendan Carr.
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