Английская Википедия:Irish Congress of Trade Unions

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:EngvarB Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox union The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (often abbreviated to just Congress or ICTU), formed in 1959 by the merger of the Irish Trades Union Congress (founded in 1894) and the Congress of Irish Unions (founded in 1945), is a national trade union centre, the umbrella organisation to which trade unions in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland affiliate.

Influence

There are currently 55 trade unions with membership of Congress, representing about 600,000 members in the Republic of Ireland.[1] Trade union members represent 35.1% of the Republic's workforce.[2] This is a significant decline since the 55.3% recorded in 1980 and the 38.5% reported in 2003.[3] In the Republic, roughly 50% of union members are in the public sector. The ICTU represents trade unions in negotiations with employers and the government with regard to pay and working conditions

Structure

The supreme policy-making body of Congress is the Biennial Delegate Conference, to which affiliated unions send delegates. On a day-to-day basis Congress is run by an Executive Committee and a staffed secretariat headed up by the general secretary, Owen Reidy who succeeded Patricia King in the position in 2022.

Justin McCamphill of NASUWT became President of Congress at the biennial conference in Kilkenny in July 2023 succeeding Kevin Callinan of Fórsa. The president serves for a two-year period and is normally succeeded by one of two vice-presidents.

Congress is the sole Irish affiliate of the ETUC, the representative body for trade unions at European level and of the International Trade Union Confederation ITUC

Social pacts

Congress enjoyed unprecedented political and economic influence over the period from 1987 to 2009 under the umbrella of Ireland's social partnership arrangementsШаблон:Citation needed. This involved a series of seven corporatist agreements with the government and the main manufacturing/services employer body IBEC and the construction employers' lobby, CIF (Construction Industry Federation). It was a classic European-style alliance of government, labour and capital built on six decades of voluntary employment relations regulated by state institutions such as the Labour Court.

For many years the union leaders agreed to dampen pay rises in return for regular reductions in income tax rates. They also negotiated a new system of pay determination for public service employees under the rubric of "benchmarking" using external assessment of pay scales for assorted grades.

The era of Christian democratic style corporatism also saw a dramatic fall in trade union density from 62% in 1980 to 31% in 2007 and consolidation through mergers of many affiliated trade unions.[4] Efforts to launch recruitment and organising initiatives failed to secure adequate support from affiliated unions while attempts to secure indirect forms of union recognition through legislation collapsed after successful legal challenges and appeals by the anti-union Ryanair company.

Ireland's period of centralised 'social pacts' ended in late 2009 when the government imposed pay cuts of between 5% and 8% on public service employees. The joint-stewardship of the state's FÁS training and employment authority by Congress and IBEC and accompanied waste of public and EU funds and excessive spending on directors 'junkets' further weakened the public standing of Congress and its 'social partnership' structures.Шаблон:Citation needed

In an assessment of the post-partnership situation, Congress general secretary David Begg prepared a strategic review paper in which he identified the increasing weakness of the Congress and individual trade unions being due to "recession and change in the balance of power with capital" as well as job cuts, poor organisation, especially in high-technology companies, and a growing rift between public and private sector employees.Шаблон:When[5]

On a more positive note Begg asserted that the ending of social partnership arrangements "liberates us to advocate and campaign for our own policies".[6]

Other activities

A "mass rally", organised by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Amnesty International, and the Rainbow Project in support of same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland[7] took place on 13 June 2015 in Belfast, with a 20,000 person turnout.[8]

Affiliated unions

Former members

General Secretaries

1959: James Larkin Jnr[19]
1960: Leo Crawford and Ruaidhri Roberts[19]
1967: Ruaidhri Roberts[19]
1982: Donal Nevin[19]
1989: Peter Cassells[19]
2001: David Begg[19]
2015: Patricia King[19]
2022: Owen Reidy[20]

Presidents

Year President Union
1959 Шаблон:Sortname Irish Transport and General Workers' Union
1960 Шаблон:Sortname Workers' Union of Ireland
1961 Шаблон:Sortname Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union
1962 Шаблон:Sortname Irish Union of Distributive Workers and Clerks
1963 Шаблон:Sortname National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers
1964 Шаблон:Sortname Vocational Teachers' Association
1965 Шаблон:Sortname Transport Salaried Staffs' Association
1966 Шаблон:Sortname Irish Transport and General Workers' Union
1967 Шаблон:Sortname General and Municipal Workers' Union
1968 Шаблон:Sortname Irish Transport and General Workers' Union
1969 Шаблон:Sortname Marine Port and General Workers' Union
1970 Шаблон:Sortname Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry Workers
1971 Шаблон:Sortname Post Office Workers' Union
1972 Шаблон:Sortname Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers
1972–73 Шаблон:Sortname Irish Transport and General Workers' Union
1974 Шаблон:Sortname Workers' Union of Ireland
1975 Шаблон:Sortname National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers
1976 Шаблон:Sortname Irish National Teachers' Organisation
1977 Шаблон:Sortname Northern Ireland Civil Service Alliance
1977–78 Шаблон:Sortname Irish National Painters' and Decorators' Trade Union
1979 Шаблон:Sortname Local Government and Public Services Union
1980 Шаблон:Sortname General and Municipal Workers' Union
1981 Шаблон:Sortname Civil Service Executive Union
1982 Шаблон:Sortname Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
1983 Шаблон:Sortname Federated Workers' Union of Ireland
1984 Шаблон:Sortname Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers
1985 Шаблон:Sortname Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union
1986 Шаблон:Sortname Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance
1987 Шаблон:Sortname Irish Transport and General Workers' Union
1988 Шаблон:Sortname National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers
1989 Шаблон:Sortname Irish National Teachers' Organisation
1990 Шаблон:Sortname Amalgamated Engineering Union
1991 Шаблон:Sortname SIPTU
1991–93 Шаблон:Sortname GMB Union
1993–95 Шаблон:Sortname Irish Municipal, Public and Civil Trade Union
1995–97 Шаблон:Sortname Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union
1997–99 Шаблон:Sortname SIPTU
1999–2001 Шаблон:Sortname UNISON
2001–03 Шаблон:Sortname Irish National Teachers' Organisation
2003–05 Шаблон:Sortname Amicus
2005–07 Шаблон:Sortname Irish Municipal, Public and Civil Trade Union
2007–09 Шаблон:Sortname UNISON
2009–11 Шаблон:Sortname SIPTU
2011–13 Шаблон:Sortname Unite
2013–15 Шаблон:Sortname Mandate
2015–17 Шаблон:Sortname Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance
2017–19 Шаблон:Sortname Irish National Teachers' Organisation
2019–21 Шаблон:Sortname Irish National Teachers' Organisation
2021–23 Шаблон:Sortname Fórsa
2023–25 Шаблон:Sortname NASUWT

Treasurers

1959: Walter Beirne
1960: John Conroy
1967: Fintan Kennedy
1982: Patrick Clancy
1985: Christy Kirwan
1989: Edmund Browne
1995: Bill Attley
1999: Jimmy Somers
2001: John McDonnell
2003: Joe O'Flynn
2019: Joe Cunningham

See also

Шаблон:Portal

References

Шаблон:Reflist

External links

Шаблон:European Trade Union Confederation Шаблон:Authority control