Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 18 hours ago
SIPTU members in the Community Sector provide vital social services throughout the country. Our work includes assisting people with disabilities, youth groups, sports clubs, the elderly, meals on wheels to delivering vital drug rehabilitation programmes among many other services.
Although largely funded by public monies, our organisations relationship with the State has been organised in a manner that makes them once or even twice removed from the direct control of Departments and Agencies. This situation is one which has resulted in the ability of the State to claim it is not directly responsible for the unacceptable situation where payment for workers in the Sector has been allowed to decline in real terms for more than a decade.
Through the Valuing Care, Valuing Community campaign and other protest and lobbying actions, we have brought our demand for fair wage rises to public attention. This BDC therefore call on the NEC to maintain its efforts to achieve two core objectives for members in the Community Sector:
a) Fair wage rises which provide our members with a salary that allows them to continue to provide vital community services.
b) To establish a link between pay in the community sector and the public sector so our members can benefit from the rises negotiated by our union in talks with the State, for which we provide vital services, and which is our primary funding source.
SIPTU members in the Community Sector provide vital social services throughout the country. Our work includes assisting people with disabilities, youth groups, sports clubs, the elderly, meals on wheels to delivering vital drug rehabilitation programmes among many other services.
Although largely funded by public monies, our organisations relationship with the State has been organised in a manner that makes them once or even twice removed from the direct control of Departments and Agencies. This situation is one which has resulted in the ability of the State to claim it is not directly responsible for the unacceptable situation where payment for workers in the Sector has been allowed to decline in real terms for more than a decade.
Through the Valuing Care, Valuing Community campaign and other protest and lobbying actions, we have brought our demand for fair wage rises to public attention. This BDC therefore call on the NEC to maintain its efforts to achieve two core objectives for members in the Community Sector:
a) Fair wage rises which provide our members with a salary that allows them to continue to provide vital community services.
b) To establish a link between pay in the community sector and the public sector so our members can benefit from the rises negotiated by our union in talks with the State, for which we provide vital services, and which is our primary funding source.
