Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 May 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Briefing by ICTU, HSA and CIF Representatives on the Reopening of the Construction Industry

Ms Patricia King:

We have put out our own material. In a sense one could call it promotional material. We are trying to reach out to those workers. Workers who are used to being in a trade union are familiar with the structures. They know where they need to go, they contact their officials and they have regular meetings. We are trying to reach out to workers who are not currently part of the trade union movement to tell them that the important thing is that workers are safe. Much of the conversation here today has been about construction. We are going to have much bigger problems in the next phase because, while there is a fair bit of trade union organisation on construction sites, there are other parts of the economy in which there is not and in which there is vigorous anti-trade union sentiment. We are going to meet much bigger problems as the economy opens.

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