Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 February 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Context Phase
Professor Terrence McDonough:
There needs to be a much closer relationship between the membership and the leadership, for good or ill. This is a general point and not specific to Irish trade unions. Social partnership was, at the end of the day, inimical to that. Trade union leaders were in closed rooms negotiating with employers and Government representatives rather than in touch with their membership and that is a problem with social partnership.
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