ICTU calls for €1bn job creation and protection plan with “social dividend’

WITH social partnership talks on an economic recovery plan looking destined to fail, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has launched a May Day call for a €1 billion job creation and protection plan.

Trade union sources last night admitted there had been no discernible progress on the two key concessions unions require from Government before they will sign up to a plan.

Those two issues are a pension protection fund and longer protection against house repossession.