Siptu chief denies ‘incomes policy’ agreement claim

Siptu president Jack O’Connor has emphatically denied that he and employers are engaged in a new national agreement which would involve an “incomes policy”.

The union leader was responding to an article in a Sunday newspaper, which said he and the head of employers’ body Ibec, Danny McCoy, had spoken of the need for a national agreement featuring an “incomes policy”.

The article also said that Mr O’Connor had “stressed the benefits of an incomes policy which would establish a norm for wage increases, allied to a structure for resolving disputes”.