Energy Services Union

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Energy Services Union
Founded 1959
Members 1,400 [1]
Affiliation Irish Congress of Trade Unions
Key people Fran O'Neill (General Secretary)
Office location 43 East James's Place, Dublin
Country Ireland
Website www.esu.ie

The Energy Services Union is a trade union representing workers at the ESB Group in Ireland.

A trade union, also called a labour union or labor union (US), is an association of workers in a particular trade, industry, or company created for the purpose of securing improvement in pay, benefits, working conditions or social and political status through collective bargaining and working conditions through the increased bargaining power wielded by creation of a monopoly of the workers. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with employers. The most common purpose of these associations or unions is "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment". This may include the negotiation of wages, work rules, complaint procedures, rules governing hiring, firing and promotion of workers, benefits, workplace safety and policies.

The Electricity Supply Board is a state owned (95%) electricity company operating in Ireland. While historically a monopoly, the ESB now operates as a commercial semi-state concern in a liberalised and competitive market. It is a statutory corporation whose members are appointed by the Government of Ireland.

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The union was founded in 1959 as the Electricity Supply Board Officers' Association, and by the following year had a membership of 1,116, growing to 1,800 ten years later. It affiliated to the Irish Congress of Trades Unions in 1976. David Begg became its general secretary in 1982, serving for three years. [2]

David Begg is a former CEO of Concern Worldwide and was General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions between 2001 and 2015.

In 2012, the union renamed itself as the "Energy Services Union".

General Secretaries

1982: David Begg
1985:
1990s: Willie Cremins
2000s: Fran O'Neill

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References

  1. ↑ Energy Services Union, "How we work"
  2. ↑ John B. Smethurst and Peter Carter, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.6, p.370
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