Ex-employee of Award-Winning Poppadom Restaurant still waiting to be paid €86,000 award Muhammad Younis, originally from Pakistan, has been awarded €86,000 by a Rights Commissioner, following an official complaint about alleged breaches of employment rights. However Mr Younis’ex-employer, Mr Amjad Hussein trading as Poppadom, has not yet paid the award. The Labour Court yesterday (September 12th, 2011) […]
‘Where you have what we call sweated trades, you have no organisation, no parity of bargaining, the good employer is undercut by the worst… where those conditions prevail you have not a condition of progress, but a condition of progressive degeneration’ (Winston Churchill, President of the Board of Trade, introducing the Trade Boards Act to […]
SIPTU is getting back to its roots with the formation of a National Ports Committee to represent dock workers. There are still companies in Irish ports refusing to recognise unions, pay the National Minimum Wage or even pay some ship’s crews any wages! The Committee will work with seafarers and British port workers to fight […]
Romania – Talks on National Agreement breaks down but Collective Bargaining Rights remain in place Talks on a new Four Year National Collective agreement in Romania are deadlocked over proposed increases in the Minimum Wage. Employers object that it is too high. What else is new? But for Irish observers the really interesting thing is […]
Keith Ewing, Professor of Public Law at King’s College, London, says Ireland is in breach of its obligations on facilitating workers who want collective bargaining under International Labour Organisation conventions – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7a2lQzJDWM See Irish Congress of Trade Union link below for interview with Esther Lynch, Head of Legal and Social Affairs, ICTU
Almost 1,000 years after the Battle of Clontarf we are still paying the price for opting out of the Nordic way of doing things. Not just when it comes to oil exploration but union recognition. The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions has used the threat of sympathetic strikes and a boycott of its products to […]