DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES ORGANISING: Future Positive.

DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES

ORGANISING:Future Positive

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627 638 623 605 594591

881 916 964 9641,017

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Employees /Union Membership 1993/2013CSO QHNS/Congress

Age Group % Union Members2008

% Union Members2009

60-64 42% 43%

45-59 48% 47%

35-44 36% 37%

25-34 26% 27%

20-24 17% 16%

15-19 5% 4%

AGE PROFILE & UNION DENSITY ROI


Managers and administrators8%

Professional 17%

Associate professional& technical

14%

Clerical and secretarial16%

Craft and related10%

Personal and protective service12%

Sales4%

Plant and machine operatives9%

Other9%


DISTRIBUTION OF MEMBERSHIP ACROSS OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS QNHS Q2 2009

Involvement in Running or Organising Trade Union

(Q.21)

(Base: All Union Members – current 456)

Significantly lower proportions considering themselves to be actively involved. Those that are, are involved in meetings, recruitment and representation.

Actively involved

Regularly attend Union meetings or events

Occasionally involved

Occasionally attends Union meetings

Rarely involved

Never involved

Don’t want to be involved

5

20

6

14

26

23

6

%

Meetings related to work place (14)

Branch meetings (8)

Activities to recruit new members (5)

Representing members to resolve grievances or disputes (3)

Mediation of workplace issues (3)

Workplace disputes such as a protest or strike (3)

Lobbying/campaigning (2)

22 members(10%)

() = % Agree 2006 amongst members

(21%)

(9%)

(14%)

(28%)

(19%)

High

Education 70%

Public Administration & Defence 66%

Health & Social Work 61%.

Transport, Storage and Comms58%

Financial Services 40%

Manufacturing37%

Low Hotels & Restaurants

9%. Business Services

14% Other Services

15%.

UNION DENSITY /ECONOMIC SECTOR CSO

Summary of Inspections & Breaches Detectedby Industry Sector January - June 2012, NERA

Sector No of InspectionsConcluded

Compliance Rate %

Agriculture 62 42%Catering 215 42%

Retail Grocery 61 48%Hotels 47 38%

Contract Cleaning 14 42%

Security 11 64%Construction 130 51%

Electrical 19 63%Other 18 66%


Labour Market

o Significant proportion of workers on low wages (66% median) 1:5

o Boom years spawned growth of low paid, insecure employment

o >17% at risk of poverty are at worko Poor data on nature of contracts/jobso Very significant SME sector (125,000 enterprises)o No right to collective bargaining


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.


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


“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”


Future Positive

From

47 Unions

Future Positive

• Rebalancing Sovereignty

• Shared Services

• A Shift To Sectoral Organisation


RoI• Manufacturing• Distribution and Retail• Infrastructure (Energy, Construction and Natural

Resources)• Commercial Services• Public and Social Service• CommunityNI• Public Services• Private Services (including construction)• Retail• Manufacturing.

A Shift To Sectoral Organisation


“…best progress would be madethrough cooperating on tangible issues likeorganising and collective bargaining…”

Transition To A New Structure


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.

The Proposition


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