Public sector pay talks

Talks broke down at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) in June after the Government offered pay increases of 2.5% for 2021-2022 and a further 2.5% pay ...

He said: "The Government side has taken over two months to reflect on its position. He has also said both sides will have to show flexibility. He has warned that while the Government wants industrial peace, it will not chase inflation.

Public sector pay talks will resume this afternoon after falling apart earlier in the summer. Union negotiators say they'll engage positively in discussions ...

The government has indicated it's prepared to increase its wage offer to avoid a series of potential strikes by the likes of teachers and nurses. Unions insist the government must put forward a better pay offer to prevent industrial action ballots to members going ahead next month. Union negotiators say they'll engage positively in discussions, at the Workplace Relations Commissions, aimed at avoiding strike action by public sector workers, including teachers and nurses.

At that stage unions rejected a 5% wage hike, saying it would not combat the extra food, fuel and housing prices caused by the cost-of-living crisis. The ...

Chief union negotiator Kevin Callinan said arrangements for voting are going ahead as he arrived at noon today for fresh discussions on a review of the current ...

“What we need to achieve here is something that recognises just how much workers are suffering as a result of the cost of living, and employers including the Government who can afford to do so are going to have to help in that regard and that’s what this is about. We’re here to negotiate. As things stand, ballots are going ahead.”

Unions says they want a deal but ballots on industrial action will go ahead this week if talks do not produce agreement.

She said: “We’re here to negotiate and we’re here to try and achieve a deal and we’ll stay here as long as that takes.” We’re here to negotiate. Asked what her members would do if there is no pay deal Ms Cunningham said: “We have a conference in Athlone in three weeks time and we will be discussing if there is a failure to achieve a deal here today we’ll be discussing with our membership what the next steps for sergeants and inspectors will be. Mr Cullinan said the unions had a negotiating position in June and “we’re prepared to negotiate from that but what we need to achieve here is something that recognises just how much workers are suffering as a result of the cost of living... We’re not going to speculate on particular figures.” “We’re here to do business just as we were on the 17th of June but the Government side is going to have to move in a credible way to close out at deal.”

Coalition locked in talks against backdrop of galloping inflation; stakes are high — to avert a winter of discontent.

Officials from the unions and the Department of Public Expenditure began the renewed talks at lunchtime on Monday and the discussions continued into the evening. He said the Government “will require the public sector unions to demonstrate flexibility as well”. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, the Teachers’ Union of Ireland and Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland are also to ballot members on industrial action. However, the agreement ends this year and unions had already sought a review due to the cost-of-living crisis. In July the main public sector unions agreed to a co-ordinated campaign — including balloting on industrial action — aimed at putting pressure on the Government to do more to respond to the rising cost of living. A: In the days which followed senior Government figures expressed hope that talks would resume and suggested it would be possible to reach a deal.

A special needs assistant at a Dublin secondary school says that the soaring cost of living dominates conversations with colleagues in the staffroom.

Do we heat the house or just have to put on an extra jumper?" Please review their details and accept them to load the content. He's an older man and it's heart-breaking because he doesn't know where he's going to go and if he can afford something else.

Irish Congress of Trade Unions President Kevin Callinan said it had been a particularly difficult negotiation. "This has been very difficult and neither side ...

"All parties have made a sincere and sustained commitment to reach agreement in very difficult circumstances. "I think members will be happy to see that we have a document, the details contained within that remain to be seen but at least we have something to consider," she added I will comment further shortly once we have the final proposal document from the WRC," Mr McGrath said.

Renewed talks on a new public sector pay deal between the Irish government and trade unions concluded with mediators set to present a proposal to the two ...

"I think they (our members) will be happy to see that we have a document. The government said it would make a revised offer when talks resumed at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) on Monday. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) is currently preparing a document on the proposed agreement. Representatives from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions' ( ...

The Irish Times understands that the proposed deal includes a 6.5 per cent increase over two years. “It will be a matter now for the public services committee of Ictu and the individual unions to evaluate the terms and decide whether or not they should be put to ballots of individual unions and then we will decide at 10am how we take this forward.” Representatives from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions’ (Ictu) public services committee began a fresh round of meetings with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform officials at the WRC on Monday.

Union officials did not give much away this morning, but the process was described as "difficult."

When asked about the fact that details of the agreement were not being given, Mr McConalogue said he would not read anything into that. That proposal would cost €1.2bn a year. Provision for an improved pay deal is included in the €5.7bn budget package due to be announced in four weeks, which means that there will be an imperative for a swift conclusion.

Unions representing around 340,000 state workers were locked in talks with Government representatives at the WRC headquarters in Dublin. The WRC is to issue the ...

It'll be a matter now for the Public Services Committee and the individual affiliate unions to evaluate the terms, decide whether or not they should be put to ballots of individual unions, and then we will decide at 10 o'clock how we take this forward, he added. “I think the way we would respond, we’ve been waiting 10-and-a-half weeks for some shift on the government side, we’ve listened to various ministers indicate different things,” he said. But they said it would be a “hard sell” with union members. “I don’t think the total on offer was going to do the deal in June. “I think it's always good when you conclude a process like this. We'll be making a statement after that."

Negotiations on a public sector pay deal have concluded after marathon overnight talks. Union officials remained tight-lipped as they left the Workplace ...