1,7281,7611,6181570 1540 15401540
627 638 623 605 594591
881 916 964 9641,0171,281
1,401 1,4421,4531,564
487 496 497 514 534 542 553 567 597 605628
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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
DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES
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%
DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES
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 Comms
58% Financial Services
40% Manufacturing
37%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%
DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES
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
DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES
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.
DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES
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
DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES
“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”
DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES
Future Positive• Rebalancing Sovereignty
• Shared Services
• A Shift To Sectoral Organisation
DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES
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
DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES
“…best progress would be madethrough cooperating on tangible issues likeorganising and collective bargaining…”
Transition To A New Structure
DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES
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
DECENT WORK_FAIR PAY_BETTER LIVES