2009-09-27 Ireland Dublin Mandate Trade Union 079a

Mandate is a

trade union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...

representing retail, administrative and distributive workers in

Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...

. The union was founded in 1994, when the Irish Distributive and Administrative Trade Union merged with the Irish National Union of Vintners', Grocers' and Allied Trades Assistants.Arthur Marsh, ''Historical Directory of Trade Unions'', vol.5, pp.119-120 The merger was criticised by some members because the word "union" was not contained in the title. Later, the union was renamed "Mandate Trade Union". On formation, the union had 22,000 members, and this grew to 40,000 by 2005. Due to the turnover of staff in retail, at the time, it was recruiting around 16,000 members per year in order to maintain this level of total membership. A new logo was designed in 2009. In 2020 and 2021, Mandate members at Debenhams Ireland took part in a lengthy industrial dispute with their former employer, campaigning for four weeks' redundancy pay per year of service as had been agreed under a 2016 collective agreement.

General Secretaries

:1994: Owen Nulty :2005: John Douglas :2020: Gerry Light 2023-2024Jonathan Hogan Interim General Secretary. 2024: Lorraine O’Brien

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