Tag Archives: Minimum Wage

New Living Wage highlights need for supplementary increase to Minimum Wage

Posted on October 20, 2022 by unitetheunion

Cost of living crisis driving widening gap between Living Wage and statutory wage floor Responding to today’s announcement that the Living Wage Technical Group has calculated the new Living Wage as €13.85 per hour, an increase of 95 cent on the previous … Continue reading →

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Unions demand significant increase in Minimum Wage

Posted on September 9, 2022 by unitetheunion

September 8th: Connect, CWU, FSU, SIPTU and Unite have supported the call by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, in its pre-budget submission, for a significant increase in the minimum wage. In a joint statement, the unions said: “The Government … Continue reading →

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Stormont Executive must provide additional wage protections for hospitality workers they have locked out of their workplaces

Posted on October 14, 2020 by Unite the union NI

Without supports latest shutdown by Stormont Executive will result in a second wave of redundancies and reductions to incomes Existing UK government’s job support scheme provides hospitality workers with only two thirds of their average hourly wage of £8.84 Speaking … Continue reading →

Posted in Covid, Living Wage, Northern Ireland news, Press Releases | Tagged #Covid19, lockdown, low pay, Minimum Wage, Neil Moore, Stormont, Unite Hospitality NI | 1 Comment

Brendan Ogle: Trade unions cannot allow lowest-paid workers to be abandoned

Posted on September 23, 2020 by unitetheunion

Unite welcomes Congress decision to withdraw from Low Pay Commission September 23rd: Unite’s Senor Officer in the Republic of Ireland, Brendan Ogle, has today (Wednesday) welcomed the decision by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions to withdraw from the Low Pay Commission … Continue reading →

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Strike action at Balcas, Enniskillen ends as workforce votes overwhelmingly to accept vastly improved pay offer

Posted on April 12, 2019 by Unite the union NI

Two year pay deal is worth more than one thousand pounds a worker in first year with guaranteed above-inflation pay increase in year two First successful private-sector industrial action in Fermanagh in more than a decade has electrified workers in … Continue reading →