Irish Print Union

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Irish Print Union
Founded November 1983
Date dissolved 1998
Merged into SIPTU
Affiliation Irish Congress of Trade Unions
Key people Owen Curran (General Secretary)
Office location 35 Gardiner Street Lower, Dublin
Country Ireland

The Irish Print Union was a trade union representing print workers 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.

Ireland Island in north-west Europe, 20th largest in world, politically divided into the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (a part of the UK)

Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest on Earth.

The union was founded in 1983 when the Irish Graphical Society merged with the Irish Bookbinders' and Allied Trades Union and the Electrotypers' and Stereotypers' Society of Dublin and District. However, the union struggled with declining employment in the industry, in particular as computerisation was introduced. Membership of the union fell, and in 1998 it merged into the Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Trade Union. [1]

The Irish Graphical Society was a trade union representing workers in the printing trades in Dublin.

The Irish Bookbinders' and Allied Trades Union was a trade union representing print workers in Ireland.

General Secretaries

1983: Owen Curran [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Arthur Marsh and John B. Smethurst, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.5, p.85
  2. ↑ "Former print union leader Curran dies", Irish Independent , 9 May 2014
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