20/01/2022
What can YOU do to pressurise union leadership to start the campaign for the restoration of workers rights taken away by the 1990 Industrial Relations Act?
Email the general secretary of your union, the Ictu and your local trades Council.
All Ictu Unions & trades councils are now calling for the restoration of all rights lost as a result of the 1990 industrial relations act.
Can't hear them?
Ask them why not?
Here is a template you can use or draft your own:
Dear [insert General Secretary/National Exec name],
I am contacting you as [insert your trade union here] member to follow up on our union’s policy that stands against the anti-trade union 1990 Industrial Relations act as a result of the recent Ictu BDC that adopted the position to oppose the act, has [Union name] been able to progress any work on this internally?
As part of our work towards this policy position, we need to demonstrate the importance that the Ictu make a press release on the newly passed position from the BDC in order for them to kick start the process. A subgroup to work on the campaign as outlined in the motion [see attached below] needs to be set up without delay if it has not been already.
Our unions representative on the Ictu NEC must raise this as part of fulfilling our own union’s efforts to progress our policy?
Who or have Ictu designated anybody to lead the process "to seek an alternative legislative regime which would allow trade union and industrial action for workers, for issues that concern workers across society and, across employers, and for effective solidarity to workers in dispute" as mandated at the recent Ictu BDC. If not why not?
Is there anything the rank and file can do to further our own position and speed up this process for the benefit of all workers and union members?
In solidarity,
[sign off]
The motion (amended) unanimously passed at the Ictu Bdc:
"Conference recognises that the restrictions on trade union action in the 1990 Industrial Relations Act need to be opposed, and that the act should be reformed to restore rights which trade unions had before 1990. Conference mandates the executive to seek an alternative legislative regime which would allow trade union and industrial action for workers, for issues that concern workers across society and, across employers, and for effective solidarity to workers in dispute"
Template ends
This is now your union policy play your part in getting it implemented email your union today.
The members are the union and this is our union policy it won't happen without pressure.
Trade unions must be radical or they will become redundant.
