SIPTU calls for laws to stop ‘daily attacks’ on union reps
The union’s biennial delegate conference was told union reps were ‘under daily attack’ from unscrupulous employers, in an attempt to prevent them from promoting employees’ rights in the workplace.
John Hansard of the SIPTU’s Dublin construction branch said, “If you are shop steward working for a company, you are sent to work on jobs with just three or four people [and] isolated from the workers.
