Labour will guarantee right to union recognition

THE Labour Party will guarantee all workers the right to trade union recognition if and when it comes to power, its leader Eamon Gilmore said yesterday.

Mr Gilmore told delegates there were at least eight commitments on employment rights made in the Towards 2016 social partnership agreement and in the transitional agreement last September which the Government still had not passed into law.

He said those included the Temporary Agency Workers Directive and anti-victimisation legislation.