FULL RECOMMENDATION
SECTION 20(1), INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT, 1969 PARTIES : MICROSEMI IRELAND - AND - SIPTU MEMBERS (REPRESENTED BY SERVICES INDUSTRIAL PROFESSIONAL TECHNICAL UNION) DIVISION : Chairman: Mr Haugh Employer Member: Ms Doyle Worker Member: Mr McCarthy |
1. Collective Bargaining
BACKGROUND:
2. The case concerns a claim by the Services Industrial Professional Technical Union (SIPTU) for recognition by Microsemi Ireland for the purposes of collective bargaining on behalf of its members. The Employer was not represented at the hearing. On the 17th August 2016 the SIPTU referred the dispute to the Labour Court in accordance with Section 20(1) of the Industrial Relations Act, 1969 and agreed to be bound by the Court's Recommendation.
UNION'S ARGUMENTS:
The Union argued that their members wish to engage collectively with the Employer on their terms and conditions of employment and procedures around grievance and disciplinary within the Company.
RECOMMENDATION:
The Court recommends that the Company should recognise the Union as the chosen representative of those employees who join the Union for all industrial relations purposes.
The Court further recommends that the parties should enter into negotiations with a view to concluding a collective agreement dealing with, amongst other things, the procedural arrangements within which the normal industrial relations business will be conducted between them.
The Court so recommends.
Signed on behalf of the Labour Court
Alan Haugh
JD______________________
9 May 2017Deputy Chairman
NOTE
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