Pay for Garda recruits and serving members needs to rise to make policing a more attractive career option, say AGSI and GRA
should be given the right to strike to allow them better negotiate for improved conditions, the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors has said. It believes if the right to strike was formally granted, it could be subject to certain controls, or a “code of practice”, including arrangements to provide policing cover in the event a strike took place.
Both AGSI and the Garda Representative Association have also called for increases in Garda pay and better pensions in a bid to attract more recruits into the force and retain those already serving. Appearing before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice on Tuesday, Ms Cunningham, said long-service pay increments should be boosted in a bid to stem rising resignations from the Garda.
Mr Slevin said while being a Garda member was “still a hugely fulfilling vocation”, numbers in the force must be increased, especially at a time when gardaí were dealing with “public gatherings by groups holding extreme views” and “hate filled” or violent situations, often when they were not properly trained for that work.
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