Irish Congress of Trade Unions

ICTU

Irish Congress of Trade Unions
Founded	1959
Country	The Republic of Ireland & Northern Ireland
Affiliation	ITUC, ETUC, TUAC
Key people	David Begg, general secretary, Peter Bunting Assistant General Secretary,
Office location	Dublin, Ireland
Website	www.ictu.ie

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), formed in 1959 by the merger of the Irish Trade Union Congress (founded in 1894) and the Congress of Irish Unions (founded in 1945), is a national trade union centre, the umbrella organisation to which trade unions in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland affiliate.

Influence

There are currently 55 unions with membership of the ICTU, representing about 600,000 members in the Republic of Ireland [1]. Trade Union members represent 31.5% of the Irish workforce. This is a significant decline since the 55.3% recorded in 1980 and the 38.5% reported in 2003. In the Republic of Ireland over 60 percent of unionised members are mainly concentrated in the Public Sector [2]. Currently there are over 1.4m of the taxpaying workforce who are not members of Unions.

Structure

The supreme policy-making body of the ICTU is the Biennial Delegate Conference, to which affiliated unions send delegates. On a day-to-day basis the ICTU is run by an Executive Committee and a staffed secretariat headed up by the General Secretary.

Congress is the sole Irish affiliate of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), the representative body for trade unions at European level.

See also

Organized Labour portal

• List of trade unions
• List of federations of trade unions
• Trades Union Congress
• General Federation of Trade Unions (UK)
• Scottish Trades Union Congress

External links

• Website of the ICTU
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• Website of the Northern Ireland Committee, ICTU
  • Affiliated Unions

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