Agreed. In my (indirect) experience unions are not good in private sector settings or when the legalities of a situation are not clear-cut.You would be surprised ..... , up to this point you are doing as good a job as anyone ...
With sites like this one, and industrial relations lawyers for bigger issues , unions have focussed more on collective bargaining in both Public / Private sector.Individual issues can be tricky , and would depend on quality of Union representative you have.
Agreed.Unions use their leverage with employers organisations (IBEC) and politicians to get best possible deal for their members.
IBEC is registered as a trade union in order to have a license to negotiate on behalf of its members (see [broken link removed] for details). Its status as a union is not my opinion; it is a fact. What I am not sure of is if, as a union, it is affiliated to the ICTU.IBEC represents employers in Ireland, suppose you could call them a Union...
ICTU is 32 county Union organisation,
ICTU and IBEC have working relationship, but no affiliation.
Quick update:
They are insisting that my contract will not have Maternity Benefit.
I pushed my case as much as I could but they insisted they 'can't afford it'.
Are you the only person who's contract has been changed?
But they paid it before, correct?
I do not remember if you have taken legal advice or not, but maybe this is a good time to do so. You may decide to drop it at this stage, but you don't know what the future holds. Just in case there are further problems down the line, it is worth keeping very clear detailed records of meetings etc and taking that legal advice now.
Out of interest, who was the mediator, solicitor, HR , out of work actor ???
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