Unions organise joint meeting over pay cuts
15 February 2010
As public-sector wide industrial action continues, unions have organised a joint mass meeting in Galway on 23 February to discuss the progress of union campaigning against the pay cuts forced through by the government in its latest budget. These cuts, along with the pensions levy introduced last year, mean that take home pay for many public sector workers has been cut by 14%.
Read more at > SIPTU (EN)
CPSU to step up industrial action
4 February 2010
The CPSU, representing 13,000 low-paid civil servants, is balloting its members for full strike action in protest at further pay cuts being pushed through by the government. The union is already part of the public sector wide work-to-rule action which has also been joined by the SIPTU general union.
Read more at > RTE news (EN)
Union announces industrial action from 25 January
21 January 2010
The IMPACT public services union is set to begin industrial action on 25 January in protest at the government’s plans for further cuts in public employees’ pay. Initially the industrial action will be a work-to-rule so IMPACT members will be refusing to co-operate with management demands that require anything beyond normal duties. the union says it will take a flexible approach across the different parts of the public sector and has a range of other actions that it may resort to as part of its campaign to defend members’ pay and conditions.
Read more at > IMPACT (EN)
Union disputes claims about pay cuts in the private sector
6 January 2010
The IMPACT trade union has criticised the government for pushing ahead with plans for pay cuts in the public sector on the basis of claims that this was a trend in the private sector. However, a survey by consultants Mercer found only 9% of companies cutting pay while the majority of employers looking to reduce salary costs implemented pay freezes or used other methods such as unpaid leave.
Read more at > IMPACT (EN)
Unions protest over savage budget cuts
17 December 2009
Trade unions mobilized for a demonstration outside the Irish parliament in protest at the government’s budget proposals that include €4 billion in cuts. Social and welfare payments are affected while public sector workers will see their pay cut by 6%-8%. This follows on from last year’s “pensions levy” which effectively meant a 7% cut in take home pay for public sector workers.
Read more at > Impact (EN)
Read more background at > Impact (EN)
And at > SIPTU (EN)
Public sector unions plan further action after national strike
30 November 2009
Public sector unions have called on the government to negotiate or face another national strike on 3 December. The unions’ action on 24 November was widely supported and was in protest at government proposals to make further cuts in public spending and public sector pay, despite already implementing cuts and imposing a 7% pension levy on all public sector workers.
Read more at > IMPACT (EN)
And at > SIPTU (EN)
Read more at > Guardian (EN)
Public sector strike planned for 24 November
16 November 2009
Public sector unions have drawn up plans for a national strike on 24 November in protest at government plans for more cuts to public sector pay. The unions have called on the government to quantify and recognize the effect of the pensions levy imposed on public sector workers as well as the freeze on recruitment and pay over the next three years. The Impact union estimates that these measures have saved the government €1.3 billion in 2009 and will mean savings of €2.4 billion in 2010. Unions want the government to negotiate over the crisis and find alternatives to the cuts to pay and services.
Read more at > Impact (EN)
And at > CPSU (EN)
Union calls for public-sector wide strike action
28 October 2009
Members of the IMPACT public services union have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in response to the government’s latest proposals for cuts in public sector workers’ pay. The union will call on other public sector unions to join a 24-hour stoppage on 24 November. Six unions have joined together in an alliance of public sector workers delivering frontline services. The general union SIPTU along with unions representing nurses, firefighters, police (Garda) officers and prison officer have set up the 24/7 Frontline Service Alliance and they will all be balloting their members on strike ation.
Read more at > IMPACT (EN)
And at > SIPTU(EN)
Union ballots members for strike action
9 October 2009
The IMPACT public services union is balloting all its 55,000 members to secure backing for industrial action in response to continuing threats to cut pay and jobs. The union says it will only use a strike mandate if public service employers move to impose compulsory redundancies, unilateral cuts in working hours, further pay cuts or reductions in pension entitlements. Meanwhile the ICTU trade union confederation has called a national demonstration against government policies on 6 November and the SIPTU general union will be seeking further support from its members for industrial action in support of the national cross-sectoral agreement.
Read more at > IMPACT (EN)
And at > SIPTU (EN)
Union reacts angrily to pay cut proposals
1 October 2009
Public service union IMPACT has criticised a report from the ESRI research organisation that calls for pay cuts in the public sector. The union says that the report uses 2006 figures, which take no account of the current public service pay freeze or the 7.5% average cut in gross pay suffered by all public servants under the so-called ‘pensions levy’. Nor does it include incomes for self-employed professionals, who are the obvious private sector ‘comparators’ for thousands of public service professional staff.
Read more at > IMPACT (EN)
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