In this issue
Health Service Job Evaluation Scheme
IMPACT breakthrough for Sligo library services
Work to rule by cleaning staff at Garda college
Community and voluntary sector workers left behind on pay
CRC pensions review agreed
Youth workers survey - Comhairle na nÓg
Call for 3rd level investment
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IMPACT’s diversity audit of newspaper front pages
IMPACT careers: Industrial Relations Officer (Dublin)
Latest IMPACT returns to the Lobby Register
Brexit and the future of Europe
Congress blog – Welcome to ‘The Jungle’
Three out of four for IMPACT five-a-side team
Conference – Ireland & the Spanish Republic
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IMPACT breakthrough for Sligo library services
by Niall Shanahan
 
IMPACT has confirmed a breakthrough in the fight to secure library services in Sligo. It follows a campaign by the union which garnered support from community, voluntary and other campaign groups who gathered in September to protest the temporary closure of Sligo Central Library.
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Work to rule by cleaning staff at Garda college
by Niall Shanahan
 
Cleaning staff at the Garda College in Templemore began industrial action on Monday (3rd October), in the form of a work to rule. The college cleaning staff are the lowest paid civil servants in Ireland, and start work on the lowest possible legal wage. The staff are represented by IMPACT trade union.
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Community and voluntary sector workers left behind on pay
Government must meet programme commitment to improve funding
by Niall Shanahan
 
IMPACT hosted a pre-budget briefing in September focusing on the community and voluntary sector, and presented the findings and recommendations contained in the union’s Caring- At What Cost? research document.

IMPACT national secretary Eamonn Donnelly warned that while household costs – including rent, motoring and insurance – continued to climb, community and voluntary sector workers were still coping with the effects of salaries that were severely reduced since 2008, and increasingly unable to meet mounting costs.
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CRC pensions review agreed
Oberstown safety review also agreed at WRC
by Niall Shanahan
 
An agreement has been reached between IMPACT and management of the Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) at the Workplace Relations Commission, following a dispute over the CRC’s decision to terminate the staff contributory pension scheme in June.
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Youth workers survey - Comhairle na nÓg
by Niall Shanahan
 
Comhairle na nÓg, is the child and youth council in the 31 local authorities nationwide, is seeking the participation of youth worker members of IMPACT in a special project survey.
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Call for 3rd level investment
by Niall Shanahan
 
The Coalition for Publicly Funded Higher Education, a group comprised of IMPACT and the USI, SIPTU, IFUT and TUI, has urged all political parties to support the publicly-funded third level education option put forward in the Cassells report, and to avoid an income-contingent loan scheme option.
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