Public sector

As workers across the NHS and our universities embarked on campaigns of industrial action, the leadership of the trade union movement relayed the backing of workers in all sectors for those on picket lines today. ICTU Assistant General Secretary Owen Reidy commended university lecturers from the UCU...

Speaking after the 1 Per Cent limit of proposed pay awards for Workers across the NI public sector was peremptorily announced today by the Department of Finance, ICTU Assistant General Secretary Owen Reidy Commented: "This amounts to a pay increase of less than half the rate of inflation over the...

At a meeting today involving NIC-ICTU representing a range of public sector unions and the Permanent Secretary of the Department of Finance and her senior officials, the trade union side made it very clear that they did not accept nor will not accept any artificial restrictions placed on them by the...

Irish Congress of Trade Unions backs NIPSA strike action: ' Public Sector Workers are less well off than they were in 2010', Owen Reidy, Assistant General Secretary ICTU. The ICTU, which represents 800,000 workers across the island and over 200,000 in Northern Ireland, fully supports the decision...