Union wins €20m pay rises in just two years

The country’s largest retail union has revealed it has secured more than €20m in pay increases for its members in only the last two years.

However, in revealing the figure, Mandate trade union general secretary John Douglas also said that tax cuts being mooted by the Government are not in the interests of the mainly low paid among its 45,000 bar and retail worker members.

In an address to 300 delegates at the union’s biennial delegate conference in Killarney, Mr Douglas outlined which organisations had agreed to increases over the last 24 months: