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Pay hikes of up to 3pc for 340,000 public servants as two-year wage deal is backed overwhelmingly by unions


And the deal promises to reverse extra working hours that were also introduced during the crisis by setting up an independent body to make recommendations on the issue, and a €150m fund.
Leaders of the public service unions met this morning to announce the aggregate ballot result following individual votes by unions affiliated to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. In a statement, the Public Services Committee said that 13 out of 17 unions backed the deal.
“The package, called Building Momentum, was formally ratified at a meeting of ICTU’s Public Services Committee (PSC) this morning,” it said.
“The agreement, which comes into force with immediate effect and runs until December 2022, includes modest pay increases skewed towards those on lower incomes, measures to address important remaining issues from the last financial crisis, and a mechanism for sectoral bargaining drawing on a a ‘sectoral bargaining fund’. ....

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Public service agreement expected to be ratified


Industry and Employment Correspondent
The proposed public service agreement Building Momentum  is now certain to be ratified tomorrow after the largest public service union Fórsa voted to back it by a margin of almost 96%. 
The turnout was just over 58%. 
Today s vote means that the four largest unions - Fórsa, SIPTU, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation and the Irish National Teachers Organisation - have all backed the two-year agreement.
This means a majority in favour is guaranteed in tomorrow s aggregate vote by the Public Services Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. 
The ratification will come as a relief to the Government, as it should deliver certainty in pay and industrial relations for the next two years as it combats the consequences of Covid-19 and Brexit.  ....

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