IMPACT’s top priority is to protect its members’ pay and working conditions.
Following substantial pay improvements achieved by the union between 2000 and 2008, public service pay is now under attack. Public servants have suffered an average 14% pay cut through the imposition of the so-called pension levy in 2009 and a further pay cut in 2010.
The union has worked to prevent and restrict these cuts, imposed by the Government, and to oppose similar pay cuts in the private sector and community organisations. We are also working with unions and others to oppose the recent cut in the national minimum wage.
IMPACT led the negotiations that resulted in the 2010 Croke Park agreement, which protects public service union members against compulsory redundancies and further pay cuts in exchange for substantial public service modernisation. The union has since worked to win support for the deal among Government and opposition parties and others, which helped ensure that it survived the IMF and cuts Budget of late 2010.
Now IMPACT is working with its local branches across the country to ensure that union members in the public, private and community sector are protected as staff numbers fall, services are reorganised, and organisations are abolished or merged.
These pages deal with pay and pension issues (see the drop-down menu on the left of this page). You can get more information about individual workplace rights by clicking HERE.
