The Restaurant Association of Ireland and Ibec won’t like it. Fine Gael certainly won’t like it. The army of commentators armed only with superficial and out-of-date analysis won’t like it. But the report on the Joint Labour Councils written by Kevin Duffy and Dr Frank Walsh does a good job [...]

Today there is a protest in O’Connell Street in support of restaurant workers at 12:30 to 2:00 pm. Today the Quick Serve Alliance is going to court to have the system of Joint Labour Committees struck down as unconstitutional. Today and tomorrow and the days to come the battle [...]

TASC has made a very interesting submission to the Independent Review of ERO and REA Wage Setting Mechanisms, which provides “independent external economic and labour market evidence in support of the need for wage floors”. It argues strongly against the cut in the minimum wage, and highlights the fact that Ireland is unique within the [...]

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A truly fantastic protest by student nurses against pay cuts for those in our frontline services in Ireland.
On February 16th over 3,000 student nurses took to the streets of Dublin from all over Ireland to protest at government plans to cut [...]

DEMONSTRATION TO SAVE THE MINIMUM WAGE

OUTSIDE DÁIL EIREANN

THURSDAY 9 DECEMBER - 1:00pm
A delegation of minimum wage workers will present our petition to TDs asking them to vote against proposals to cut the minimum wage to €7.65. (www.claimingourfuture.ie)

The proposed cut is contained in the Financial Emergency Measures In the [...]

It appears that the government, in what can only be considered as a deeply undemocratic and unjust move, will attempt to legislate for a €1 cut to the minimum wage over the coming days.  This will most likely happen in the form of an amendment tacked on to legislation such as the [...]

6 per cent of the those who took part in the 2010 Solidarity Factor, incorporating the results of TASC’s 2010 Equality Survey favour raising minimum wage, 29 per cent favour establishing maximum wage and 49 per cent favour combination of both approaches.
Commenting on the findings the equality think-tank’s Director, Paula Clancy, said today:
“There is now [...]

The vulnerability of weaker sections of society becomes obvious in times of recession. Already it is clear that those who can least afford further income reductions will be asked once again to ‘share the pain’ in December. It is clear however, that sharing - in the eyes of the Government - is a fundamentally unequal [...]

TASC have so far this week brought out two reports, a major and a minor, with more to follow.
The first, A Square Deal? The Real Cost of Making a Meal in the Restaurant Sector focuses on the call for a reduction in the minimum wage from the Restaurant Association of Ireland (RAI).
As those who are [...]