Delegates at Ictu Kilkenny event back emergency motion from Montrose unions on governance at broadcaster
“This is an executive board which refused to acknowledge for years it was engaged in a system of bogus self-employment. When we were talking about low-paid workers, the executive board refused to pay them pensions, sick pay, maternity and other benefits.
“It is sad, when we have been raising these issues for years, that it took people bending over backwards to pay more money to just one person” for the issue to be highlighted, she said. Aside from RTÉ, the conference’s first day was mainly taken up with motions on Northern Ireland and the economy. Proposing a motion on the cost-of-living crisis, Siptu general secretary Joe Cunningham told delegates the Government should make greater use of powers to control prices while private sector pay rises could and should be paid out of the excessive profits being made by many companies at present.
“We need to return to the fundamental issues of what we produce, how we produce it and who benefits from that production. We need a new economic and business model that can address these deficits, confront the central challenges that we face, and put the Irish economy on the high road of inclusive and sustainable growth,” said Mr Cunningham.
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