Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Impact of Recession on Low-Paid Workers: Discussion with Mandate
3:05 pm
Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I will move on to that point. The Mandate magazine Shopfloor is a very good magazine. Mandate has the power to bring about change. Someone raised the point when I was coming in to this meeting about how to create awareness. As one of the better-organised unions, Mandate should be promoting the good employers and the businesses that are trying to give a decent wage and fair employment such that when I am spending the few euro I have I know that if I go into business X those running it are doing everything in their power to try to support employment, but if I go to business Y I know those running it are enforcing contracts on them. I can make the choice but if I have the knowledge I would be better able to make it.
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