Written answers
Tuesday, 21 March 2006
Department of An Taoiseach
Industrial Disputes
8:00 pm
Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 128: To ask the Taoiseach the number of strikes related to union recognition in each of the past ten years; and the average duration of such strikes in each of those years. [10909/06]
Tom Kitt (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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Statistics on industrial disputes are compiled from details supplied by the monitoring unit of the industrial relations section within the employment rights and industrial relations division of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and from information collected directly from other sources by the Central Statistics Office. The details requested by the Deputy are set out in the table.
| Number of Industrial Disputes relating to Union Recognition, 1995 to 2005 | ||||
| Year | Disputes | Firms | Duration | Average Duration |
| 1995 Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1996 Total | 1 | 1 | 7 | |
| 1997 Total | 1 | 1 | 114 | |
| 1998 Total | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| 1999 Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2000 Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2001 Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2002 Total | 3 | 3 | 19 | |
| 2003 Total | 1 | 1 | 56 | |
| 2004 Total | 1 | 1 | 22 | |
| 2005 Total1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1 2005 figures relate to published data to the third quarter only. | ||||
| Firms — Number of firms involved in each dispute. | ||||
| Average Duration— is given only where there is more than one dispute in a given year. | ||||
| Source: Industrial Disputes, Central Statistics Office. |
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