Industrial Relations
John Walsh: Beware of throwing the baby out with the bathwater as unions get Musk-effect boost
It looked like private sector unions were going the way of the dinosaur, but recent brutal redundancies in the tech sector are encouraging trade union membership while the Covid pandemic has tilted the balance of power firmly in favour of workers
There was an interesting sequence of interviews on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland’s programme on November 29. John O’Connell, the general secretary of the Financial Services Union (FSU), defended the government’s decision to partially remove the ban on bonuses in the banking system that has been in place since the taxpayer-funded rescue of the sector in the late Noughties.
Pearse Doherty, the Sinn Féin TD, was on shortly after O’Connell and described the move as a “kick ...
