Unions are warning of a major strike next month if talks aimed at agreeing a new public sector pay deal fail to reach a satisfactory conclusion.<\/p>\n
Talks are continuing at the Workplace Relations Commission today for a tenth day.<\/p>\n
Chair of ICTU’s Public Services Committee Kevin Callinan has written to his fellow union leaders convening a meeting of the Public Services Committee on Monday to receive a report on the pay talks.<\/p>\n
“In the event of no draft agreement being available, (members will) consider a proposal to hold a nationwide strike on Wednesday, 11 November 2026, with the strike to take the form of a demonstration in Dublin and other demonstrations in major regional locations,” Mr Callinan wrote.<\/p>\n
Delays in agreeing to a new public sector pay deal led to a 24-hour strike by more than 300,000 public sector workers earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Public sector workers including teachers, nurses and doctors, took part in the strike on 14 October – in the biggest day of national strike action since the aftermath of the 2008 economic crash.<\/p>\n
A second planned strike was suspended to allow for talks, however industrial action in the form of a work-to-rule is continuing across the public sector.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, T\u00e1naiste and Minister for Finance Simon Harris said he was hopeful the talks would conclude in the coming days and that there would be an agreement.<\/p>\n
Speaking on RT\u00c9’s Today with Claire Brock, Mr Harris said: “I’m hopeful that in the coming days we can see a conclusion and a new public sector pay agreement.<\/p>\n
“That’s really what everybody is working to try and achieve.”<\/p>\n
He said there is “really intensive engagement with the Congress of Trade Unions” and representative bodies, adding “let’s try and get that done in the next couple of days”.<\/p>\n
In updates to members, unions have indicated that the negotiations are likely to conclude this week – with or without a deal.<\/p>\n
The talks are continuing today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unions are warning of a major strike next month if talks aimed at agreeing a new public sector…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-669951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}