The Civil Public & Services Union which represents lower paid workers in the Civil & Public Services has warned against any move to stop increments to its members. Continue reading Media Release – CPSU REJECTS ANY MOVE TO CUT INCREMENTS TO LOWER PAID →

The Civil Public & Services Union (CPSU) which represents over 13,000 lower paid civil servants has described the report of the Croke Park Implementation Body Review as vindicating the efforts of public service workers to help the economy recover, and has called on the Government to keep its side of the deal by triggering the “pay back clause of the Agreement”.

Noting that the Agreement has delivered savings in excess of the targets for the last two years, the CPSU said today that the workers had delivered but that the Government must now “step up to the plate” and keep its commitments under the Agreement.

Citing Clause 1.16, the so-called 35K Clause, CPSU General Secretary, Eoin Ronayne said “ the Agreement holds out the promise of pay restoration on earnings up to €35,000 per year through a share in the savings made and that the time had now been reached to begin the process of doing just that”. Given the pressures on lower paid workers to meet their bills and outgoings, he added: “any pay review that puts money back into their pockets will find its way immediately into the economy through local businesses helping to drive growth and employment”.

Mr. Ronayne said the economic folly of cutting pay to lower paid workers had to be brought to an end, and that a welcome start would be for the Government to deliver on the Croke Park commitment to a pay review for earnings up to €35.000 per year. He urged the Government to keep its side of the deal as the workers had clearly done and to provide a “kick start” to local businesses and communities through a much need improvement in pay for lower paid public servants.

For information and comment contact: Eoin Ronayne on 087 2520603.