Trade unions to discuss benchmarking

THE trade union movement will meet on February 5/6 to decide whether it will demand the abandonment of the benchmarking process in the wake of Thursday’s pay review which gave nothing to most public sector employees.

A preliminary meeting of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Public Services Committee yesterday confirmed “the disappointment and dismay” of all the public sector unions, according to committee chair and IMPACT general secretary Peter McLoone.

“The meeting was primarily about getting preliminary feedback from leaders of individual unions on the benchmarking process before they talked to their executives,” he said.