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This Week: David Begg, General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, says it may decide to enter talks for a new national partnership deal
The General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, David Begg, has said workers have not come out ahead in terms of wages over the period of the last national bargaining agreement, because pay rises have been balanced out by inflation.
He was speaking on RTÉ's This Week programme, days after congress said it would meet in delegate conference to decide if they would enter talks for a new national partnership deal.
Mr Begg said globalisation was causing a downward pressure on wages, and this presented a real problem for trade unions that are attempting to get higher pay increases loaded onto lower paid workers.
