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DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES

ORGANISING: Future Positive. DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES. Employees /Union Membership 1993/20 13 CSO QHNS/Congress. AGE PROFILE & UNION DENSITY ROI. DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES. DISTRIBUTION OF MEMBERSHIP ACROSS OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS QNHS Q2 2009.

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DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES

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  1. ORGANISING: Future Positive DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES

  2. Employees /Union Membership 1993/2013 CSO QHNS/Congress

  3. AGE PROFILE & UNION DENSITY ROI DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES

  4. DISTRIBUTION OF MEMBERSHIP ACROSS OCCUPATIONAL GROUPSQNHS Q2 2009

  5. Involvement in Running or Organising Trade Union (Base: All Union Members – current 456) % 22 members (10%) (21%) (9%) (14%) (28%) (19%) Significantly lower proportions considering themselves to be actively involved. Those that are, are involved in meetings, recruitment and representation. (Q.21) () = % Agree 2006 amongst members

  6. UNION DENSITY /ECONOMIC SECTORCSO High • Education 70% • Public Administration & Defence 66% • Health & Social Work 61%. • Transport, Storage and Comms58% • Financial Services 40% • Manufacturing 37% Low • Hotels & Restaurants 9%. • Business Services 14% • Other Services 15%.

  7. DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES

  8. Labour Market • Significant proportion of workers on low wages (66% median) 1:5 • Boom years spawned growth of low paid, insecure employment • >17% at risk of poverty are at work • Poor data on nature of contracts/jobs • Very significant SME sector (125,000 enterprises) • No right to collective bargaining DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES

  9. Growth of Low Pay Legacy of the Boom • National minimum wage coverage c 5% of workers, 80,000 • JLCs and REAs provided statutory wages and conditions of employment to 26% workers, c. 400,000, in lower paid sectors. DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES

  10. Ireland: Flexible forms of work: 'very atypical' contractual arrangements European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions Study, October 2008 ‘Very Atypical' • Part-time contracts (less than 10 hours per week) • Short fixed-term contracts, of either less than six months, less than three months or less than one month • employment without formal written contracts, (based on oral contracts) • “zero hours” contracts/on-call work, where workers can be called upon at short notice DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES

  11. “Given the often hidden nature of the non-standard forms of employment, there is very limited data on the incidence of such practices. However, while there is no data on the incidence of these various practices, it is reasonable to assume that they have increased over the past five years” DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES

  12. Future Positive From 47 Unions

  13. Future Positive • Rebalancing Sovereignty • Shared Services • A Shift To Sectoral Organisation DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES

  14. A Shift To Sectoral Organisation • RoI • Manufacturing • Distribution and Retail • Infrastructure (Energy, Construction and Natural Resources) • Commercial Services • Public and Social Service • Community • NI • Public Services • Private Services (including construction) • Retail • Manufacturing. DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES

  15. Transition To A New Structure “…best progress would be made through cooperating on tangible issues like organising and collective bargaining…” DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES

  16. The Proposition Stage 1: cooperate on joint organising projects and ramp up organising expenditure on an incremental basis to 10% of income by 2019. Stage 2: establish a formal single negotiating unit with powers delegated from individual unions Stage 3: agree with the employers on some kind of joint industrial council for a sector. DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES

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