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The Truth About Irish Wages

Posted by: Michael Taft of Notes on the Front

Topics: Articles, Income, Industrial Relations, Social Partnership

Published: April 14th, 2008

The new union UNITE (the merged ATGWU and AMICUS unions) has just published a report on Irish wages that is sure to prove controversial. It flatly contradicts the prevailing consensus that Irish wages are somehow ‘high’, that Irish wage growth is high relative to our EU trading partners, and that these ‘high’ wages are […]

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