IMPACT and TEEU urge acceptance of new partnership deal
Two of Ireland’s leading trade unions are urging their members to back the new social partnership deal that was finalised earlier this month.
The deal includes pay rises totalling 10% for workers over 27 months, but public sector staff will have to accept a pay freeze until December before the first increase is implemented.
Despite this, IMPACT, Ireland’s largest public sector union, says it is confident the pay rises will outstrip inflation and has described the Towards 2016 agreement as one of the best deals every negotiated for Irish workers.
IMPACT's 55,000 members are due to hold a ballot on the document between now and August 11th.
The Technical, Engineering and Electrical Union, meanwhile, is also calling on its members to support the deal in a postal ballot over the coming weeks.
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions will hold a special conference on September 5th at which the various unions will cast votes on the agreement based on the outcome of their respective ballots.
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