Browsing by Subject "Trade unions"

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    • From division to dissension - Irish trade unions in 1930s 

      McCarthy, C (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)
      The special conference of April 1936 directed the national executive of the Irish Trade Union Congress to 'forthwith set up a Commission to inquire into and report on the terms of reference to the unions.'

    • From division to dissension - Irish trade unions in nineteen-thirties 

      McCarthy, C (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)
      In 1930 the Irish labour movement divided, the Irish Trade Union Congress forming one organisation and the Labour Party another. It was an amicable recognition, despite reservations and regrets, that Connolly's syndicalism ...

    • The "General Strike" as a labour weapon 

      Chart, D.A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1912)
      The special point to which your attention will be directed this evening is the comparatively novel use of the "general" or "sympathetic" strike as a means of compelling a settlement of disputes between employers and ...

    • Guidelines and application form for a negotiation licence 

      Ireland. Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Department of Business, Enterprise and InnovationIE, 2019-03-15)

    • Guidelines on applying for a grant to defray costs associated with trade union amalgamations/transfer of engagements 

      Ireland. Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Department of Business, Enterprise and InnovationIE, 2019-03-19)

    • Labour associations in their relation to the state 

      Finlay, T.A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1912)
      The individuals who engage in the same industry are drawn together by the force of common interests, and where they are not dominated by a power strong enough to prevent combination among them they will unite to defend ...

    • On the law reforms which have been successfully advocated by the Trades Union Congress, and the further law reforms which they now seek 

      Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)
      When I learned that the Trades Union Congress, which has held twelve annual meetings, had fixed its next meeting to be held in Dublin, in September?thus visiting Ireland for the first time, I made some inquiries as to their ...

    • Recent trends in trade union membership in Ireland 

      Walsh, Frank; Strobl, Eric (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)
      Using micro data from the Quarterly National Household Survey we look at trends in Irish union membership from 2001-2006. There was a steep decline in union density. Decomposition analysis suggests that most of the decline ...

    • The effect of collective-bargaining on earnings in Northern Ireland in 1973 

      Harris, RID; Wass, VJ (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1987)
      This paper uses data from the New Earnings Survey to see if trade unions secure relatively higher wages for those workers covered by collectively bargained agreements. A standard econometric model is used, and our results ...

    • Trade union finance in Republic of Ireland 

      Hillery, B (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)
      In industry, especially in the private sector, profit is usually the acid test of success or failure. Most organisations, if they are to be run effectively, need money - and trade unions are no exception. Trade union ...

    • Trade union organisation in Ireland 

      Mortished, R. J. P. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1927)
      It would seem that the Society confesses to a certain ignorance concerning Trade Unions in Ireland, though they number in their membership some hundreds of thousands of our fellow-countrymen. This paper has been ...

    • Trade unions and combinations in 1853 

      Leslie, T.E. Cliffe (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1853)
      Being desirous of obtaining authentic information with respect to the present character and prevalence of combinations among the working classes, I have endeavoured to possess myself of it by personal inquiry from persons ...

    • Trade unions and wage inflation 

      Mulvey, C; Trevithick JA (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)
      It was a traumatic discovery for many economists interested in the problem of inflation that the Phillips Curve quite suddenly appeared to lose its predictive capacity after 1966. Many clung on to the hope that what we ...

    • Trades boards as a means of adjusting wages disputes and promoting trade interests 

      O'Connell, John Robert (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1919)
      In a time like the present, when the differences between Capital and Labour appear to be more than ordinarily acute, it seems opportune to invite the attention of this Society to those Acts of Parliament, some of ...

    • Trades' unions and combinations in 1853 

      Leslie, T.E. Cliffe (Dublin Statistical Society, 1853)
      Being desirous of obtaining authentic information with respect to the present character and prevalence of combinations among the working classes, I have endeavoured to possess myself of it by personal inquiry from persons ...

    • Unions and the wage distribution in Ireland 

      Callan, Tim; Reilly, Barry (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1993)
      This paper examines the effects of trade unions in Ireland on the first two moments of the wage distribution. Using data from the ESRI's 1987 Survey of Income Distribution, Poverty and Usage of State Services, a union ...

    • The Worker and the Constitution: A Theory of Constitutional Labour Law 

      Eustace, Alan (Trinity College Dublin. School of Law. Discipline of Law, 2023)
      This thesis constructs a theoretical justification for the phenomenon of ?constitutional labour law? ? that is, legal decisions about the interaction between constitutional norms, including human rights, and the labour ...