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| ICTU General Secretary David Begg |
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions is holding a special conference today to approve the new social partnership pay agreement deal.
All the member unions of ICTU will be voting to accept or reject the partnership agreement, Towards 2016, at the meeting in Jury’s Hotel in Dublin’s Ballsbridge.
ICTU General Secretary David Begg said that the deal should be ratified.
“I think we are reasonably confident,” he said. “It’s a dangerous thing to predict these things, of course you can be wrong but based on what we know of the declared results of the individual unions it looks to us as if the agreement is likely to be carried.”
The new deal provides for a 10% pay rise for workers over 27 months. It includes a minimum wage increase to be applied from next January.
If the deal is approved, workers will receive their first pay increase backdated to either July or September.
The minimum hourly wage is due to rise next January. The rate has not yet been agreed.
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