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09/01/2009
Union 'Says No' To Public Service Pay Cut
Ireland's biggest public service union has slammed any speculation that it is accepting a pay cut for its workers.
Impact has told its 55,000 members there will be no negotiation with the Government over pay cuts, and "did not have, would not get, and will not seek" a mandate for pay cuts from his members.
In an email bulletin, posted to members on the day of the bilateral meeting between ICTU and Taoiseach Brian Cowen, Impact General Secretary Peter McLoone reassured Impacts members there would be no such deal.
"The unions have a responsibility to explore and embrace the measures required to protect jobs, incomes, public services and the economy in these difficult times.
"But that doesn't extend to pay cuts, which would likely deepen the recession.
"Impact members can be absolutely certain that if they see me walking in and out of Government buildings it is emphatically not to discuss pay cuts," he said.
Mr McLoone went on to say this position was shared by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and was strongly endorsed by all the other public service unions at a meeting of public service unions yesterday.
(DW)(BMcC)
Impact has told its 55,000 members there will be no negotiation with the Government over pay cuts, and "did not have, would not get, and will not seek" a mandate for pay cuts from his members.
In an email bulletin, posted to members on the day of the bilateral meeting between ICTU and Taoiseach Brian Cowen, Impact General Secretary Peter McLoone reassured Impacts members there would be no such deal.
"The unions have a responsibility to explore and embrace the measures required to protect jobs, incomes, public services and the economy in these difficult times.
"But that doesn't extend to pay cuts, which would likely deepen the recession.
"Impact members can be absolutely certain that if they see me walking in and out of Government buildings it is emphatically not to discuss pay cuts," he said.
Mr McLoone went on to say this position was shared by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and was strongly endorsed by all the other public service unions at a meeting of public service unions yesterday.
(DW)(BMcC)
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