*BREAKING NEWS*
IMPACT pushes Government on minimum wage
IMPACT has called on the Government to immediately implement the recommendations of the Low Pay Commission to increase the national minimum wage.
IMPACT general secretary Shay Cody said, “In light of pay movements for IMPACT members in the public service, commercial semi-state and in private companies, we believe it’s necessary now to ensure pay improvements for those on the lowest wage rates in the country. We are urging the Government to move quickly on this issue.”
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SNAs ballot for industrial action
by Niall Shanahan
IMPACT has issued ballot papers to its 8,000 special needs assistant (SNA) members on a motion for industrial action. The ballot was in response to the Government’s failure, for the fourth year running, to announce SNA allocations before the end of the 2017 summer term.
The SNA allocations establish the number of SNAs that are allocated to individual schools each school year. The ballot was issued to IMPACT members by post in September, and concludes on Friday 13th October.
IMPACT assistant general secretary Barry Cunningham said the lengthy delays to their publication every year since 2014 means SNAs don’t know if they have a job to return to in the new school term.
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Irish Water: IMPACT seeks referendum timetable
Union says new governance plans would enable privatisation
by Bernard Harbor
IMPACT has called on the Government to announce a timetable for a referendum to ensure that water services remain in public control, amid fears that proposed new governance structures would increase the risk of privatisation over the coming years.
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Pre-Budget submission calls for urgent investment
Early IMPACT says €625 million extra needed to achieve acceptable childcare and early education standards
by Niall Shanahan and Bernard Harbor
The Government should allocate an extra €125 million in next year’s Budget, and at least €625 million extra over the next five years, to ensure that Ireland meets the OECD average spend on early childhood care and education by 2022, according to IMPACT.
In a costed pre-Budget submission launched last week the union said two months’ paid parental leave for one parent should also be introduced next year, at an extra cost of €84 million, and called for fees paid by parents to be capped as a condition of public funding of early childhood providers in future.
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Congress calls for 50,000 social housing units
Campaign demands penalties for hoarding land
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has called on the government to urgently initiate a major local-authority led programme to generate 50,000 social housing units over the next five years.
Congress has also called for the introduction of measures to penalise ‘land hoarding’, speed up the planning process and to create a new rental model for Ireland.
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Save with the new IMPACT discount scheme
Scheme provides discounts on hundreds of brands
by Martina O'Leary
IMPACT has officially launched its new group scheme for members.
Offering discounts from hundreds of brands and retailers, the scheme is uniquely provided to members of IMPACT as a benefit of their union membership.
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