Members to grill IMPACT on why it backed pay deal

THE leadership of the country’s largest solely public service union will this morning be grilled by its own members over the backing it has given to the Croke Park deal on public service pay and reform.

The first full day of IMPACT’s conference will begin with the union’s outgoing general secretary Peter McLoone outlining his senior role in the negotiation of the deal with the Government, as well as the reasons why, now that clarifications have been secured, he and his executive are recommending acceptance.

Last night, while opening the conference, the union’s president John Power said the deal represented “the best and safest port available to the ‘Good Ship Public Service’ in a raging economic storm”.