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WORKERS RIGHTS CENTRE 8.30 A.M November/ Vol.14 No. 7 December 2015 ISSN 0791-458X Saving the public Fighting for the Battle water service undocumented for Brazil Page 8 Page 16-17 Page 26 Call to end ‘if and when’ contracts by Scott Millar SIPTU is seeking action from the Government in relation to so-called ‘if and when’ contracts which have been high- lighted as a major concern for precarious workers. Researchers at University of Limerick (UL) found that ‘if and when’ contracts have evolved to undermine protections in Irish law against the imposition of ‘zero hour contracts’. The contracts circumvent existing legislation by, in theory, giving employees the option of refusing to work hours allocated to them at short notice. The contracts were found to be particularly prevalent in the accommodation, food and retail sectors as well as in occupations including nursing, community care and third level lecturing. Writing in Liberty, the Minister for Business and Employment, Ged Nash, commits to tackling this new form of precarious employment, stating that; “Too many workers go to bed on a Sunday night not knowing how many hours they will work that week, what their take- home pay will be or how they are going to organise family life around work. I am determined to tackle this.” Christy Moore singing with Clerys workers in Liberty Hall on Friday, 16th October. See page 4. He said: “Tackling precarious work practices is a priority for me and (Photo: Derek Speirs ) the Labour Party, and is a key element of the dignity at work agenda I have been promoting since becoming Minister.” 5 6 3 4 1 2 Nash has called on stakeholders to make submissions based on the 8 7 UL study, which will inform recommendations on creating greater job Brexit Crossword 10 Tackling 9 security that he will bring to government early in the new year. 13 Page 31 11 12 1211 danger 14 precarious SIPTU will be presenting an extensive submission to the minister 16 15 17 on the UL study and on what legislative changes should be imple- Page 5 19 work 18 mented to provide workers with greater job security. 21 20 Page 13 Continued on page 2 WORKERS RIGHTS CENTRE 8.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., Monday - Friday [email protected] [email protected] 2 Liberty In this month’sLiberty NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2015 News Polska Edycja Liberty Irish Water workers ballot for industrial action Page 6 Workers in Irish Water began level agreement and enforce up to to expand the number of private balloting on industrial ac- 1,500 job losses among front-line contractors working for the com- tion on Monday, 9th Novem- water service workers. pany which will accelerate the ber. SIPTU Organiser, Brendan creeping privatisation of this pub- lic utility.” The decision to ballot for indus- O’Brien, said: “The company has The ballot is scheduled to be trial action by SIPTU members re- not explained who would carry out the essential work of any em- counted on Friday, 20th sults from an attempt by ployees made redundant. It can November. (see page 8) management to break a service only be deduced that the plan is Liberty View Liberty Page 11 View Labour Court intervention in Irish Rail dispute SIPTU has agreed to a re- said: “SIPTU will be presenting its hearing.” quest by the Workplace Rela- case that the management of Irish In deference to the WRC re- tions Commission (WRC) to Rail must honour its commit- quest, SIPTU agreed to suspend a Supporting Quality: refer the dispute at Irish Rail ments in relation to past produc- work stoppage by train drivers, Odlums and Pfizer to the Labour Court. tivity, which were agreed in 2014, which was scheduled to take place SIPTU Organiser, Paul Cullen, at the forthcoming Labour Court on Friday, 6th November. Page 18-19 Rent controls needed to stem rising homelessness Dancing with Paddy Behan A well-designed system of lessness, long-term mortgage ar- the adoption of a system modeled rent controls must be intro- rears, home repossessions and on the best practice in other coun- Page 22 duced immediately to stem shortages of social housing and tries. the rising tide of homeless- private rental accommodation all O’Connor added: “Many other ness, according to SIPTU intensifying in severity,” he said. European countries have had such President, Jack O’Connor. The SIPTU President said that the systems in place for many years, “Ireland is experiencing a hous- Government needed to go much indeed decades, and have seen ing crisis that is worsening each further than proposals that solid and sustainable investment Ending the Cuban week with spiralling rents, home- emerged in early November in re- in the rental sector at the same blockade lation to the issue. He called for time.” Page 25 Proposed banking changes an attack on the elderly The 1916 Rising Proposals by the Bank of Ire- Moran, . Under the propos- “This amounts to an attack on generation land to restrict cash transac- als, Bank of Ireland is at- older people, many of whom find Page 28 tions in branches amount to tempting to force customers ATMs and computerised interac- an attack on the elderly ac- who are dealing in amounts tion extremely difficult, if not im- cording to the National Sec- of less than €700 to only use possible, and do not own home retary of the SIPTU Retired automated or internet based computers,” Moran said Members Section, Paddy banking systems. 1916 - the sporting year Page 30 Deal to bring Dublin Fire Brigade numbers up to safe level SIPTU members have ac- safe minimum manning lev- Dublin City Council that numbers cepted a Workplace Rela- els within an agreed time- in the DFB should be brought up tions Commission proposal frame. to 963, in line with the agreed safe on a plan that will see num- The main provisions of this manning levels that have been in bers in the Dublin Fire agreement, which was concluded place since 1991. Brigade (DFB) brought up to in October, is a commitment by Editor: Frank Connolly, SIPTU Head of Communications Journalist: Scott Millar Design: Sonia Slevin (SIPTU), Joe Mitchell (Brazier Media) & William Hederman Continued from page 1 — Call to end ‘if and when’ contracts Publications Assistant: Deirdre Price Administrative Assistant: Karen Hackett SIPTU Services Division Organ- the consultation process with the what is expected of them. Produced, designed, edited and printed by trade union labour. iser, Ethel Buckley, said: “Our intention of ensuring that the Other proposals include a mini- Printed by The Irish Times, City West, Dublin. members will regard the publica- measures to be adopted will fully mum shift of three continuous Liberty is dedicated to providing a platform for progressive news and views. tion of the UL report as an oppor- protect the interests of workers hours work for employees and, if If you have any ideas for articles or comments please contact: tunity to deal with the abuse, and their families.” not, that the worker should be [email protected] misuse and manipulation of vul- Among the proposals put for- paid for three hours. There is also Liberty is published by the Services, Industrial, Professional & Technical Union, Liberty Hall, Dublin 1 nerable workers in Irish society. ward in the UL report to assist a recommendation to legislate for SIPTU General President, Jack O’Connor • Vice President, Gene Mealy• “We note the commitment by precarious workers is a recom- a 72 hour notice period for any General Secretary, Joe O’Flynn the minister to bring forward mendation that employees re- request to undertake work or Production: SIPTU Communications Department, Liberty Hall, Dublin 1, measures to handle this type of ceive, on day one of a new job, a cancellation of work, or compen- Tel: 01 8588217 • Email: [email protected] mistreatment by some employers contract which includes working sation for not meeting this mini- and the union will engage fully in hours that are a true reflection of mum notice. Liberty 3 News NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2015 Irish Water workers ballot for industrial action SIPTU: securing pay increases and growing membership WORKERS at most of lot of employments in the private Ireland’s leading companies sector, particularly in manufactur- are organised into SIPTU, a ing, of up to 4.5% to 5% in some fact which critically under- employments where they have the mines claims that unions are ability to pay. In others it might be of the past or against 2% to 3%.” progress, SIPTU General Sec- O’Flynn said the fact that work- retary, Joe O’Flynn, has ers still understood that organising claimed. in a union is relevant to the quality “There is a lot of perception of their lives was clear from the today that unions are no longer rel- increasing SIPTU membership that evant and we are not really repre- was beginning to recover from the sentative in terms of employment losses it had suffered during the and are not organised in the big US recession. multinationals,” he said address- “We have organised 16,000 new ing 400 delegates gathered at the members since 1st January,” he City Hall, Cork, on 7th October. told delegates. “We expect that by “However, if you take the top the end of the year we will have 100 listed companies in terms of over 20,000 new members. There employees, 72 are SIPTU-repre- have been losses but for the first sented and that includes the likes year in six we will have more new of Pfizer and Apple.” members than people who are Addressing delegates on the leaving due to the loss of their progress of the union in 2013 and jobs.” 2014, O’Flynn pointed to the scale O’Flynn’s address to delegates of pay increases that were being confirmed this year’s biennial con- achieved by members.
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