In this issue
The New Union Project
Increments restored in high profile voluntary agency
Extension of ‘grace period’
Questions for the parties as the #GE16 campaigns commence
IMPACT ballot at Irish Water - 95% back industrial action
A Christmas message from IMPACT
IMPACT members' draw - win a car
Also in this issue
Report calls for fire brigade to run all Dublin ambulances
Education Minister welcomes pay increase for school secretaries
IMPACT Christmas arrangements
On the web

Congress Talks podcast (Episode 2) – ICTU

UNIONS IN PRIVATE SECTOR TO SEEK INCREASES UP TO 5% IN COMING YEAR – ICTU

Irish workers are likely to get pay rises next year - Survey shows 97% of employers plan to increase salaries as economy recovers – The Irish Times (Monday 21st December 2015)

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NEWS
Increments restored in high profile voluntary agency
by Niall Shanahan
 
IMPACT has secured the restoration of increments for staff working in a high-profile voluntary agency. As part of the union’s overall pay restoration strategy, negotiations have been ongoing with a number of employers in the community and voluntary sector this year.
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Extension of ‘grace period’
by Niall Shanahan
 
The Minister for Public Expenditure and reform, Brendan Howlin TD, has issued an order to extend the ‘grace period’, for the calculation of pension benefits for retiring public servants, to 1st April 2019.
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Questions for the parties as the #GE16 campaigns commence
by Niall Shanahan
 
After months of speculation, the general election is expected early in the new year. IMPACT is putting a series of questions to all of the political groupings contesting this year’s election, and we’ll publish their responses in the members’ e-bulletin and on impact.ie as we receive them.
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IMPACT ballot at Irish Water - 95% back industrial action
by Niall Shanahan
 
The Local Government & Local Services and Municipal Employees’ divisions of IMPACT have balloted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action at Irish Water, following the announcement by the water utility that it will shed 1,500 jobs as part of its business plan published last October.
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A Christmas message from IMPACT
 

From Shay Cody, IMPACT general secretary


Colleagues, this past year has proved, once again, what we can achieve when we work together as a union. At our conference in 2014 we emphasised the need to achieve income recovery. This year, we took the first steps toward achieving that goal, and now the Lansdowne Road Agreement will begin to deliver pay restoration for the first time since before the economic crisis.

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IMPACT members' draw - win a car
Exclusive to IMPACT members

Cornmarket and General Motors Ireland have teamed up for an IMPACT members' draw which could see one lucky winner drive away with a 161 Opel Corsa Excite. Two runners up will win an iPad. To enter you must be an IMPACT member. Deadline for entry is April 30th 2016. To enter, simply click on the panel above (links to an external website).
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