Tesco Workers Together! Mandate Trade Union has announced that five more Tesco stores have voted in Tesco Picfavour of industrial action at the company and will join their colleagues on the picket lines on Friday, 17th February 2017. This follows nine Tesco stores who plan to commence strike action on St. Valentine’s Day, Tuesday, 14th…
Connect Trade Union – UCATT Stage I Shop Stewards Training Course Regions I and II (Branches Dublin, Dundalk, Drogheda, Kildare, Portlaoise) Course Venue: Head Office, 6 Gardiner Row, Dublin 1. Course dates: 20/21/22/23/24 February 2017 Certification: QQI Level 5 Course Content: Rules Structures and Policy Making Industrial Relations in Ireland Communication Skills Negotiation Skills Handling…
2017 acceleration of public service pay restoration How have unions delivered accelerated pay restoration? Public service unions insisted on early negotiations to accelerate pay restoration last November, after the Government accepted Labour Court recommendations that gave Gardai better terms than those set out in the Lansdowne Road agreement (LRA). Although it initially resisted, the…
Connect Trade Union Offices in Limerick have now changed and are located in the IMPACT Building, 30/36 Roxboro Road, Limerick. The main telephone number for same is 061 316810
Limerick No.1 Branch will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) at 7.30 pm on Thursday 24th November at our offices in the Impact Building, 30/36 Roxboro Road, Limerick. Nominations for Branch Committee members will be taken at the meeting to serve for the period 2017/2018. The Cork Branch Annual General Meeting (AGM) will take place…
Ninety per cent of UCATT members vote for merger with Connect Trade Union The General Secretary of the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union, Eamon Devoy, has welcomed the decision by UCATT’s 5,500 members in the Republic to merge with it through a transfer of engagements. Ninety per cent of UCATT members voted for the transfer.…
The Executive and General Secretary Condemns Commission for Energy Regulations (CER) Decision on ETCI. Eamon Devoy, General Secretary has written to the CER over their decision on the future of Electro Technical Council of Ireland (ETCI). As all electricians will know, the ETCI, heretofore supplied the certification forms for all Electrical Installations. More importantly, The…
Paddy Kavanagh, the South-East Regional Secretary of the Connect Trade Union has been elected General Secretary Designate to succeed Eamon Devoy as leader of Ireland’s largest craft union. He will take up office as General Secretary from July 24th, 2016. Speaking after the Executive Council at the weekend where the election result was announced, Mr…
SIPTU and Connect Trade Union local authority members working under the management of Irish Water have today picPatKav(Friday, 20th November) overwhelmingly voted for industrial action to prevent the privatisation of the public water service. Last month, Irish Water said that it intended reduce the local authority workforce in the company by up to 1500 by…
The European Trade Union Confederation, representing 90 trade union organisations in 39 countries, said it stood with the people of Paris at this terrible, frightening time. Luca Visentini, General Secretary of the ETUC, said “We are with the families and loved ones of the victims, with the workers dealing with these murderous attacks, and with…