Financial Services Union launches document calling for the right to Union recognition and collective bargaining

Financial Services Union launches document calling for the right to Union recognition and collective bargaining

Poll indicates that 74% of people support the proposition that employers should be legally required to negotiate with trade unions.

The Financial Services Union have today launched a policy paper entitled “unionising and collective bargaining hold key to a fairer economy and more equal society” 

Speaking at the triennial conference of the FSU John OConnell, General Secretary said:

“The FSU commissioned a poll with leading polling company, Ireland Thinks asking the following question.

“Should employers be legally required to negotiate with their trade unions if employees wish them to do so”

The results were overwhelming. Seventy-four percent of the people surveyed agreed with the proposition posed that employer should be legally required to negotiate with the trade unions. 

You can access the full results here www.fsunion.org/collective-bargaining

Not for the first time the people are ahead of the legislators.

We need collective bargaining across the economy, and we need it now. 

There can be no going back to the greed and inequality of the Celtic Tiger era but equally no going back to the unjustness of the austerity years. 

We need a new fair way forward to assist the economy recover from COVID 19 and rebuild many businesses and jobs. 

Workers need the means by which to unionise free from victimisation and harassment and the State should institutionally support trade unions and workers seeking to organise. 

We need a level playing field between workers and employers and the State.

This is a cause worth fighting for, a common cause for all workers. 

Our Union will join that struggle and play our part in uniting workers, uniting trade unions, uniting commmunites in the common cause of freedom of expression and the right to collectively bargain.”

ENDS