SIPTU President, Jack O’Connor, has announced a major campaign against low wages and exploitative work practices and contracts.

‌In his opening address to the SIPTU Biennial Delegate Conference in City Hall, Cork, on Monday, 5th October, Jack O’Connor said that this campaign will include lobbying all political parties to embed a commitment to fair employment rules in their forthcoming election manifestos.

The SIPTU president called for “the development of a society where every person has a right to a fully comprehensive modern health service that is free, a right to decent housing, proper childcare, fully comprehensive free education, a decent job with a living wage and proper care when they become old and infirm.”

“Our economy will generate, over the next seven years, the necessary resources to enable all of this to happen, but it means prioritising investment in public health, housing, education, eldercare and childcare over cutting taxes.

“Such a project is entirely feasible [and would implement] an all-island concept of a sustainable society underpinned by a sustainable economy and fair taxation.”

To read Jack O'Connor’s full speech to the SIPTU Biennial Delegate Conference 2015 click here: