Ictu head attacks business campaigns based on 'rhetoric and anecdotes'

Ictu general secretary Owen Reidy was commenting on campaigns by business groups that claim wage costs are driving firms to the wall and killing jobs

Owen Reidy, general secretary at Ictu: Jobs market debate should be 'based on facts, not fiction'

Campaigns by business groups that claim wage costs are driving firms to the wall and killing jobs are based on "rhetoric and anecdotes" and not on hard facts, the head of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, or Ictu, has said. 

Ictu general secretary Owen Reidy said that some businesses were looking for "unique and additional supports" received from the Government during the pandemic and inflation crises to be put into place on a permanent basis, even as employment numbers reach new record levels.