What about the rights of those seeking work?

The government has assured the UN and ICTU that it intends to legislate for its commitments to ensure collective bargaining rights for workers.

In response to pressure from the trade union movement - at the United Nations, of all places - the government has assured both the UN and ICTU that it intends to legislate for commitments in the programme for government to ensure collective bargaining rights for workers.

Last week, Ireland's ambassador to the UN in Geneva assured the Human Rights Council that a commitment on collective bargaining rights in the Programme for Government would ...