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There are currently 55 trade unions with membership of Congress, representing about 600,000 members in the Republic of Ireland. [1] Trade union members represent 35.1% of the Republic's workforce. [2] This is a significant decline since the 55.3% recorded in 1980 and the 38.5% reported in 2003. [3]
Fórsa (pronounced [ˈfˠoːɾˠsˠə]; "Force") is an Irish trade union for public service staff. With over 80,000 members, it is the largest public service union in Ireland, and second largest trade union in the state. [2][3] It was created following a ballot of the Public Service Executive Union (PSEU), the Irish Municipal, Public and Civil ...
SIPTU (/ ˈsɪptuː /; Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union; Irish: An Ceardchumann Seirbhísí, Tionsclaíoch, Gairmiúil agus Teicniúil) is Ireland 's largest trade union, with around 200,000 members. Most of these members are in the Republic of Ireland, although the union does have a Northern Ireland District Committee.
The union represents a broad range of workers throughout industry and public service. It includes craftworkers, technicians, skilled operatives, general workers, technical, administration, and supervisory staff. [3] The TEEU is the largest engineering union in Ireland and the second largest in manufacturing, representing up to 40,000 workers.
I. Independent Workers Union of Ireland. Irish Federation of University Teachers. Irish Postal Union. Irish Taxi Council.
Unionist postcard (1912) Unionism in Ireland is a political tradition that professes loyalty to the crown of the United Kingdom and to the union it represents with England, Scotland and Wales. The overwhelming sentiment of Ireland's Protestant minority, unionism mobilised in the decades following Catholic Emancipation in 1829 to oppose ...
ICTU, Labour Party. The Workers' Union of Ireland (WUI), later the Federated Workers' Union of Ireland, was an Irish trade union formed in 1924. In 1990, it merged with the Irish Transport and General Workers Union to form the Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union (SIPTU). [2]
The Labour Party (Irish: Páirtí an Lucht Oibre, lit. 'Party of the Working People') is a centre-left [3][4][5] and social democratic [6][7] political party in the Republic of Ireland. [8] Founded on 28 May 1912 in Clonmel, County Tipperary, by James Connolly, James Larkin, and William O'Brien as the political wing of the Irish Trades Union ...