ISSU YOUNG WORKER & TRADE UNION RESOURCES
Welcome to your guide to being a young worker. Your national second-level students’ union wants to ensure you know your rights in the workplace whether it’s your pay, annual leave entitlements or right to trade union membership.
A trade union is an organisation that protects the rights and interests its members. Members are employees in a particular sector or job, for example, teaching or nursing.
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) is the single umbrella organisation for trade unions, representing a range of interests of ICTU members, both in Ireland and in Northern Ireland.
If unsure of what trade union to join? Click the button to the right for a handy form to tell what union you should be in!
Resources:
YOUNG WORKER SURVIVAL GUIDE
The Young Worker Survival Guide outlines everything you need to about being a young worker. From pay to breaks to unfair dismissal. This guide was originally developed in 2017 by SIPTU, ISSU & USI to distribute to young people. The guide is regular updated with any updates in employment law.
Some of the items covered in the guide include:
The right to join a union
Payslips: your entitlements
Maximum working hours & breaks
Wages: your rights and illegal deductions
Annual Leave
Protection against unfair dismissal
ISSU & One Movement workplace rights - Student handbook. including Printable statement of employment
This student workplace rights handbook features a printable statement of employment. Within 5 days of employment you are entitled to a statement of employment.
One Movement
ONE MOVEMENT
One Movement is a collaborative group of organised activists and officials representing trade unions.
This initiative is developed into a partnership between the Trade Union Councils in each region and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.
One Movement Cork
One Movement Galway
TRADE UNIONS AND OTHER INFORMATION:
National Umbrella Organisation
Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU)
Congress is the largest civil society organisation on the island of Ireland, representing and campaigning on behalf of some 800,000 working people. Congress (ICTU) is a national trade union body, the umbrella organisation to which trade unions in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland affiliate.
Mandate
Mandate is the union of retail, bar and administrative staff.
Civil Service, Education, Health & Welfare, Local, Government & Local, Services / MunicipaL, Services & Enterprises
FÓRSA
Fórsa is the second-largest union on the island of Ireland and one of the largest trade union voices in the Irish civil and public service.
General Workers, Industry, Services, Professional, Public Service
SIPTU
The Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union (SIPTU) represents over 180,000 workers from virtually every category of employment across almost every sector of the Irish economy.