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	EMIRE: IRELAND - IRISH CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS
		The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) was formed in 1959 as a result of the amalgamation of the Irish Trade Union Congress and the Congress of Irish Unions.
		The ICTU is the largest (and the only significant) trade union confederation in Ireland and has affiliates from both north and south of the border; thus it is a 32-County body.
		ICTU is at present one of the "social partners" involved in the Programme for Economic and Social Progress.
	www.eurofound.eu.int /emire/IRELAND/IRISHCONGRESSOFTRADEUNIONS-IR.html (394 words)

	Why Join a Trade Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After a number of Western trade unions left it in 1949, as a result of disputes over support for the Marshall Plan, to form the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, the WFTU was made up primarily of state-run unions from communist countries and unions affiliated with or sympathetic to communist parties elsewhere.
		Irish Congress of Trade Unions - The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), formed in 1959 by the merger of the Irish Trade Union Congress (founded in 1894) and the Congress of Irish Unions (founded in 1945), is the organisation to which trade unions in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland affiliate.
		Congress of South African Trade Unions - The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is a trade union federation in South Africa.
	www.hoffa96.com /whyjoinatradeunion.html (595 words)

	Trade unions in Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Irish Congress of Trade Unions is the single umbrella organisation for trade unions in Ireland, representing a range of interests of employees, both in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland.
		Dismissal for trade union activity or membership is automatically unfair and an employee dismissed in such circumstances does not require any particular length of service in the job in order to enforce his/her rights.
		The rate of subscription paid to your trade union will be determined by the trade union but is usually at the rate of 0.5% to 1% of your gross salary per year.
	www.oasis.gov.ie /employment/employment_rights/trade_unions.html (577 words)

	Irish Times Article - ICTU condemns anti-bin charges campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Calls for the trade union movement to support the anti-bin charges campaign were firmly rejected yesterday by the general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Mr David Begg.
		Mr Begg said trade unions were concerned about "the obvious inconsistency in the treatment of ordinary working people by comparison to the rich and powerful whose activities have come to public notice in recent years".
		Congress, he said, "strongly objects to union members who are council employees being obstructed in the course of their work and householders being inconvenienced and exposed to health hazards as a result of uncollected rubbish.
	www.ireland.com /newspaper/front/2003/0925/2809647513HM1BIN.html (640 words)

	Dublin Dreaptha: In the Irish news ...
		The day of protest was called by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions to demonstrate solidarity with the workers at Irish Ferries and to highlight wider concerns about exploitation of migrant workers and the displacement of jobs.
		Union leaders pointed to the fact that many non-participants stood to applaud as the march went by as evidence of huge public support for the event.
		ICTU (Irish Congress of Trade Unions) general secretary David Begg said the turnout at yesterday's marches provided an answer to those who claimed the trade union movement was finished.
	karola.nomadlife.org /2005/12/in-irish-news.aspx (763 words)

	Hoffa Speech to Irish Congress of Trade Unions
		Not long ago, we assisted one of your unions, S.I.P.T.U., in a case involving Archer Daniels Midland - ADM. S.I.P.T.U. was in a dispute with ADM in Cork.
		Local talks were at a standstill and the union needed to speak to management in the U.S. Most of ADM is under contract with the Teamsters.
		The Teamsters Union, under the leadership of Dan Kane Sr., was a leader of the campaign in the U.S. to raise funds to help the striking British miners in the 1980’s.
	www.teamster.org /05news/hn_050624_5.htm (1848 words)

	CAIN: Issues: Politics: Irish Congress of Trade Unions (1969) 'Programme for Peace and Progress in Northern Ireland', ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions is the central trade union organisation in Northern Ireland.
		The Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions represents 215,000 trade union members in Northern Ireland and is the most representative body covering all sections of religious and political opinions.
		In present circumstances the trade union movement has a very special opportunity of making an immense contribution to an improvement in community relations The opportunity should be taken.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /othelem/organ/ictu/nicictu.htm (1594 words)

	ICTU - A Partner in the Northern Ireland/Republic of Ireland EURES Crossborder Partnership
		The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) is the central representative organisation and authority for the trade union movement within the island of Ireland.
		Congress nominates representatives to a wide range of institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic.
		The Northern Ireland Committee of Congress, which is elected at a Northern Ireland Biennial Conference, is responsible for day-today affairs in Northern Ireland.
	www.eures-crossborder.org /xhtml/ictupart.html (207 words)

	Irish unions wage fight over low-cost migrants - Business - International Herald Tribune
		DUBLIN Ireland's unions and business lobbies on Tuesday will begin the tortuous task of cobbling together a national pay deal, four months after a wave of protests gripped the country amid fears that an influx of inexpensive labor from Eastern Europe would jeopardize jobs for Irish workers.
		Unions had delayed Tuesday's wage discussions, which were part of a national pact on a range of social issues, until they obtained concessions last week for a legal overhaul of how workplaces are regulated.
		Union membership has been falling, as younger workers find employment in non-unionized industries like information technology and the services sector, and as they change jobs more frequently.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/05/01/business/irish.php (796 words)

	The two souls of Irish Trade Unions
		ICTU was pressurised into calling for a boycott of Dunnes and urging workers with their suppliers not to pass pickets.
		As the trade union leadership entered into a joint economic, social and (on many issues) political strategy with the government and the employers through the National Programmes, embracing austerity in the '80s, it has now accepted a consensus approach to new management techniques and 'rationalisation', in the individual firm, embracing competitiveness in the '90s.
		Congress brought this to a high point in 1994, the centenary of its foundation, by becoming the 'persuader' in Irish Steel and TEAM Aer Lingus alongside employers, politicians and the media.
	struggle.ws /rbr/soulrbr2.html (4231 words)

	IrishEyes: Disinformation from unions
		The government must use some of its PR machine to unpack union demands, showing the country that if we concede to the will of the trade unions, we will slip onto a pathway that leads to economic stagnation and rising unemployment.
		Irish Ferries are taking the ugly route - and to be honest could be more diplomatic but they're simply following the same path as a number of household names who outsource to economies where wage and operating costs are significently lower.
		Irish people have a right to ethnic and economic self determination, it is in fact the basis of the foundation of the State.
	irish.typepad.com /irisheyes/2005/12/disinformation_.html (2538 words)

	Unions defer talks on new pact in row over employment standards
		The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has deferred talks on a new national social partnership programme in order to secure specific commitments from the Government regarding employment standards and job 'displacement'.
		Congress president, Peter McLoone, who chaired the special ICTU meeting, said that was is now a matter for the executive of Congress to make a judgement call as to when, 'if ever, the climate will be right to take up the Taoiseach’s offer of national talks'.
		ICTU general secretary, David Begg told the conference that the unions did not need to see 'the foundations poured….but we do need to see the blueprint'.
	www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int /2005/11/inbrief/ie0511201n.html (814 words)

	Trade Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Trade Policy Review Mechanism, a permanent feature of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is designed to contribute to improving adherence by all WTO members to rules, disciplines, trade union and commitments made under the Multilateral Trade Agreement.
		This book analyzes formal approaches to overcoming monetary divisions within countries trade union and within integrating regions, focusing on the consequences of monetary union for trade among union members trade union and their financial development trade union and stability.
		The authors discuss hard pegs such as those attempted by the currency board of Argentina, outright dollarization, such as in Ecuador, trade union and multilateral monetary union, as in Europe, the least reversible form of monetary union trade union and the most powerful elixir of financial integration trade union and trade.
	www.hoffa96.com /tradeunion.html (557 words)

	Irish Democrat : News and comment : News 2006 : Trade unions must become a force for change
		In the end Irish Ferries restructuring plans, involving the displacement of its existing workforce with foreign labour, was modified after a huge display of public disapproval in Dublin.
		He was the only union leader to make it clear he would not enter Partnership talks on pay and conditions only if the issue of labour displacemet was dealt with separately.
		Mr O'Connor, an astute but cautious figure, may now determine whether trade unions in Ireland can effectively harness public anger against current trends of exploitation and grow in strength, or whether they will be dragged down into further public irrelevance by another Partnership deal which fails to tackle substantive issues of economic justice.
	www.irishdemocrat.co.uk /news/2006/tu-force-for-change (1185 words)

	Workplace struggles and the unions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Trade Unions are important organs of the working-class.
		Union activists are facing new management attacks but the trade union leadership speaks only of partnership with the bosses.
		THE IRISH Congress of Trade Unions is to hold a special delegate conference on September 30th.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/union_wsm.html (3380 words)

	Dáil Éireann - Volume 465 - 15 May, 1996 - Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Meeting with Irish Congress of ...
		Discussions are continuing with the teaching unions which are examining how this framework, or a similar framework, might enable outstanding issues for teachers to be brought to an acceptable conclusion.
		I am glad that following the meeting I had with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, together we have been able to find a way of overcoming a number of difficulties that were building up on the industrial relations front.
		Ahern: As the trade unions are aware, in the past three years there has been a well run practice of dealing with productivity claims, but programmes covering the last nine years have not dealt with the fact that where a Government wants to pay up, outside a programme, it finds a way of doing so.
	www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /D/0465/D.0465.199605150011.html (1799 words)

	TRADE UNION ACT, 1971 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"trade union" has the same meaning as in the Trade Union Acts, 1871 to 1952.
		(2) The High Court, after hearing any evidence adduced by the applicant, the Minister, the Congress and any other trade union, may at its discretion declare that the granting of a negotiation licence to the applicant would not be against the public interest.
		(2) The Trade Union Acts, 1871 to 1952, and this Act may be cited together as the Trade Union Acts, 1871 to 1971.
	www.irishstatutebook.ie /1971_33.html (569 words)

	Irish Abroad - Irish American News
		The Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the largest union SIPTU have already deferred talks on a national pay agreement amid fears of job displacement and exploitation of foreign workers.
		On Tuesday Labor Party leader Pat Rabbitte called for a reassessment of immigration policy in the light of the Irish Ferries dispute and evidence of the displacement of Irish workers in a range of industries.
		Irish Ferries last month tried to replace all its Irish staff with cheap foreign labor and planned to pay its new workers less than the minimum wage.
	www.irishabroad.com /news/irishinamerica/news/newreformcall.asp (521 words)

	Irish Congress of Trade Unions tells Labour Court of “compelling case for a significant rise” in the National Minimum ...
		The Irish Congress of Trade Unions told the Labour Court today that there was a “compelling case for a significant rise” in the National Minimum Wage.
		At a Labour Court hearing on the issue, Congress argued that a significant rise was necessary in order to keep pace with wage growth and price rises since 2005, when the wage was last adjusted, and prevent the emergence of a ‘two-tier’ workforce.
		The Congress submission pointed out that all evidence indicated that the Minimum Wage increase in 2005 had not contributed to a growth in unemployment — if anything, the opposite was the case, while a rise would also have no impact on inflation or affect competitiveness.
	www.finfacts.com /irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_10008037.shtml (945 words)

	International Labour Organization - ILO Web site
		The ILO with funding collaboration from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has embarked on a project with the local trade unions to initiate dialogue and making the voices of the people heard on the most appropriate solutions on the rebuilding within the tsunami affected communities.
		Individual trade unions will become implementing partners to the programme and would take either an area based approach or a sector based approach, depending on their comparative advantage.
		The individual trade unions involved have improved their strategic and operational capacity and they have started their development of national strategies and action plans for how to further penetrate and organise the informal sector in Sri Lanka.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/region/asro/colombo/ilotechntradeunion.htm (331 words)

	Terry Carling, Northern Ireland Officer of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions - "It is the best thing for ...
		Terry Carling, Northern Ireland Officer of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions
		This comprised the parties at the talks, together with the ICTU and employers' organisations such as the Confederation of British Industry, the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Northern Ireland Economic Council and the Institute of Directors.
		The ICTU represents members throughout the whole of Ireland and our central authority is actually the Executive Council, which meets in Dublin.
	www.wsws.org /news/1998/jun1998/ire4-j18.shtml (901 words)

	Irish Congress of Trade Unions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On a day-to-day basis the ICTU is run by an Executive Committee and a staffed secretariat headed up by the General Secretary.
		Congress is the sole Irish affiliate of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), the representative body for trade unions at European level.
		Trade unions of the Republic of Ireland
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_Congress_of_Trade_Unions (207 words)

	Trades Union Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Trade Unions Congress (TUC) is a federation of trade unions in the United Kingdom, representing the majority of labour unions.
		The UK Association of Organised Trades, founded in Sheffield, Yorkshire, in 1866, was the forerunner of the TUC (though efforts to expand local unions into regional or national organisations date back at least forty years earlier; in 1822, John Gast formed a 'Committee of the Useful Classes', sometimes described as an early national trades council).
		Arising out of the 1897 Congress, a decision was taken to form a more centralised trade union structure that would enable a more militant approach to be taken to fighting the employer and even achieving the socialist transformation of society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trades_Union_Congress (530 words)

	BreakingNews.ie: UK trade unions to hold protest for Irish Ferries workers
		The Irish Congress of Trade Unions is expected to press ahead with its planned Irish Ferries rally regardless of the outcome of talks at the Labour Relations Commission.
		The demonstration has the backing of the British Trades Union Congress and is designed to highlight opposition to "job displacement", the erosion of employment standards and the exploitation of workers.
		Irish Ferries management and SIPTU representatives have been in talks on the matter at the Labour Relations Commission for the past two days, but it is unclear if any resolution can be found.
	breaking.tcm.ie /2005/12/07/story233823.html (273 words)

	Irish Congress of Trade Unions to ratify national pay agreement/partnership deal today
		The Irish Congress of Trade Unions is holding a special conference today to approve the new social partnership pay agreement deal.
		All the member unions of ICTU will be voting to accept or reject the partnership agreement, Towards 2016, at the meeting in Jury’s Hotel in Dublin’s Ballsbridge.
		ICTU General Secretary David Begg said that the deal should be ratified.
	www.finfacts.com /irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_10007167.shtml (640 words)

	Trades Union Congress - TUC statement on the Irish Ferries dispute: solidarity with the ICTU day of action (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		We believe that the plans of Irish Ferries to re-register in Cyprus, and replace its Irish crews with Latvian workers on less than half the Irish minimum wage is irresponsible and immoral.
		We support the call of the ICTU for political action to resolve this dispute, and we urge the management of Irish Ferries to withdraw their proposals and negotiate honestly with SIPTU, the union covering the staff.
		The LBAS Free Trade Union Confederation of Latvia (Latvijas Brîvo Arodbiedrîbu savienîba, LBAS) has sent a message of support to SIPTU General President, Jack O'Connor, for tomorrow's rallies against a 'race to the bottom' organised by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.
	www.tuc.org.uk /international/tuc-11142-f0.cfm (1022 words)

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