Ahern: bring back social partnership or prepare for chaos
"I’m still involved in conflict resolution, but it’s mainly outside of Ireland now.”
Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern has warned that the country faces industrial relations chaos unless there is a return to social partnership.
As Charles Haughey’s minister for labour in the late 1980s, Ahern was credited with creating the original social partnership process. A similar ‘catch-all’ mechanism was again needed to resolve the growing number of disputes, he told this newspaper. “Maybe social partnership got too complex,” he said. “When the crash came, people said: ...
