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WORKERS RIGHTS CENTRE 8.30 A.M Vol. 16 No 3 July 2017 ISSN 0791-458X Organising ICTU Venezuela the ports Conference the truth Page 24-25 Page 8 - 9 Page 29 Pay rise for building workers by Frank Connolly Tens of thousands of construction workers are set to win a 10% pay rise after months of campaigning by SIPTU and other unions. The proposed new minimum rates are set out in a Labour Court rec- ommendation for a new Sectoral Employment Order (SEO) which is designed to provide for minimum rates of pay and other conditions of employment in the construction industry. The recommendation for a new SEO for construction workers follows detailed discussions with union representatives over recent weeks, ac- cording to SIPTU Divisional Organiser, Greg Ennis. “The union submission covered minimum rates of pay, pensions, sick pay and travel time. A key objective of all the construction unions in Sophia Byrne, age 2, with these negotiations was to preserve the integrated pay structure involv- (L to R back row) Big Start ing all categories and grades. We were also determined to protect or- supporters Fiona Glackin and Orla Quigley delivering ganised employments from under cutting by non-union labour,” Greg hundreds of ‘Postcards from Ennis said. the Dole’ to Minister for The negotiations achieved a 10% increase of the minimum craft rate Finance, Public Expenditure to €18.93 per hour with other operative grades receiving the same ‘pro and Reform, Paschal Donohoe rata’ increase. The increase restores the 7.5% pay cut enforced on con- at his department in Dublin on Friday 14th July as part of a struction workers during the recession with a 2.5% annual increase on SIPTU campaign to highlight top. The original demand by the trade unions was for a 15% rise. precarious contracts and the Greg Ennis said that SIPTU would now pursue the remaining 5% and lack of state investment for has also proposed a complete review of the grading structure within the Early Years sector. See the construction sector in the light of the changes which have occurred page 21. since it was put in place in 2000. Photo: Leah Continued on page 2 Farrell/RollingNews.ie WORKERS RIGHTS CENTRE 8.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., Monday - Friday [email protected] 2 Liberty In this month’sLiberty JULY 2017 News WRC to open in Silgo Mayor Carr A Workers Rights Centre (WRC) cated in the SIPTU office in Han- mation and advice on workplace is- will be opened in Silgo on Friday, son Retail Park, Cleveragh, Sligo. sues. For more information visit Page 6 28th July, at 4.00 p.m. The latest in The WRC will be open to all work- workersrightscentre.ie the network of WRCs will be lo- ers who wish to ‘drop in’ for infor- Industrial action suspended in Cork County Council SIPTU members in Cork County Commission. deficiencies by the Council in ap- Liberty View Council suspended their industrial The long running dispute re- plying the ‘Service Delivery Op- Page 12-13 Liberty action on Monday, 17th July, in sults from the refusal of manage- tions’ of the Lansdowne Road order to allow for the commence- ment to recruit the additional staff Agreement. ment of a conciliation process con- required to adequately deliver View ducted by the Workplace Relations statutory services and to address From Farm Support for 30c minimum wage rise to Fork The Low Pay Commission is under- iser, Ethel Buckley said: “A rise of way to ensure improvement to Page 15 stood to have recommended to the 30 cents on the minimum wage their livelihood remains organising Government that the minimum would be very welcomed by low in their union. In this way, they wage be increased by 30 cent to paid workers across the country. can secure increases in wages and €9.55 per hour. The move could However, it will still provide a improvements in the conditions of benefit over 100,000 low paid wage on which it is very difficult their employment.” workers. to survive. Health News SIPTU Services Division Organ- “For low paid workers the best Page 17 Ross meets unions to discuss transport forum A new forum is to be set up to give workers earlier this year. companies and the compensation TDs support all stakeholders, including unions, After the meeting, SIPTU TEAC they received for passengers with public and private operators, dis- Division Organiser, Greg Ennis, free passes. Big Start ability groups an input into trans- said the forum would be useful for “What we are about is trying to Page 21 port policy. members and provide an opportu- ensure that the public transport SIPTU representatives were nity for the union to set out its vi- service is funded appropriately, among those who met with the sion on public transport for the serves the citizens of the State as Minister for Transport, Tourism future. it should and removes any need and Sport, Shane Ross, on 10th He said a number of concerns for future industrial action”, Ennis July to discuss the establishment were raised with the Minister in- said. Polska page of the forum as agreed following cluding the level of State subven- Page 23 industrial action by Bus Eireann tion for public transport BNM investment does nothing to allay Midlands jobs crisis Sport The Bord na Móna (BNM) Group of BNM Group of Unions secretary, will result in widespread job Page 34 Unions has stated that the an- John Regan, said: “The negative el- losses.” nouncement by the company that ement of this major investment The Minister for Communica- it intends to invest €1.2 billion in plan is that it provides no job secu- tions, Climate Action and Environ- its solar, wind and biomass busi- rity for BNM workers. Indeed, the ment, Denis Naughten, has nesses will do nothing to allay the Midlands will become an unem- acknowledged a request by the growing jobs crisis in the Midlands ployment black spot in the coming BNM Group of Unions for an ur- resulting from its decision to exit years if BNM proceeds with its gent meeting to discuss the threat peat briquette production. plan to exit peat production which to the future of the company. Editor: Frank Connolly, SIPTU Head of Communications Journalist: Scott Millar Design: Sonia Slevin (SIPTU), Joe Mitchell (Brazier Media) & William Hederman Continued from page 1 — Pay rise for building workers Publications Assistant: Deirdre Price “A review will also seek to fur- Party during its term in the last the first to have such an SEO put Administrative Assistant: Karen Hackett ther improve wages and conditions government and is legally binding in place. Meanwhile, negotiations Produced, designed, edited and printed by trade union labour. for workers and would afford all on all employers, across whole sec- with the CIF on the introduction of Printed by The Irish Times, City West, Dublin. categories, including crane opera- tors of the economy. It prevents a new Registered Employment Liberty is dedicated to providing a platform for progressive news and views. tors, an opportunity to have claims undercutting of rates of pay and Agreement for workers in the in- If you have any ideas for articles or comments please contact: [email protected] assessed on their merits, while conditions by non-union employ- dustry will continue. This will deal Liberty is published by the Services, Industrial, Professional & Technical Union, preserving the concept of an inte- ers in the competition for con- with issues other than pay, includ- Liberty Hall, Dublin 1 grated pay structure,” he said. tracts. An SEO must be approved ing dispute procedures, annual SIPTU General President, Jack O’Connor • Vice President, Gene Mealy• “However, we will be insisting on by the Government and both leave, bereavement leave, subsis- General Secretary, Joe O’Flynn immediate implementation of the houses of the Oireachtas before it tence payments, access to the Production: SIPTU Communications Department, Liberty Hall, Dublin 1, 10% pay increase.” becomes legally binding on all em- health trust scheme and other en- Tel: 01 8588217 • Email: [email protected] The SEO is a new mechanism ployers. titlements. which was achieved by the Labour The construction sector will be Liberty 3 News JULY 2017 Building workers win 10% pay rise - and continue fight for more June, SIPTU has formally proposed a complete review of the grading By structure within the construction Greg Ennis sector in the light of the changes which have occurred since it was The construction industry put in place in 2000. This would was decimated following the afford all categories, including bursting of the Irish property crane operators, an opportunity to bubble in 2007 and the 2008 have claims for improvements as- banking crisis. The crippling sessed on their merits, while pre- and unprecedented economic serving the concept of an crisis resulted in the cessa- integrated pay structure. All the tion of house construction unions represented on the ICTU and a postponement of key CIC support this approach, except infrastructural projects Unite. Unite has not opposed it but across the island of Ireland. sought time to reflect upon it. This resulted in many con- struction workers losing their 3. Crane Operators - In May 2017 jobs. and following months of negotia- Those who retained their em- tions with the CIF, SIPTU represen- ployment saw their income stag- nate initially and then reduce in tatives secured an increase of 25% 2011 under a Labour Court recom- for all crane operators by way of a mendation by way of a 7.5% im- negotiated restorative two hour posed pay cut. Also, the Registered per day ‘Greasing Allowance Pay- Employment Agreement (REA) for ment’, which has been applicable the construction industry, which since 5th June 2017.
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