Mandate Trade Union

27/05/2026

🎓 Shop Stewards from Mandate's Dublin North Division participating in our Shop Steward Training Course with Tutor Mary Mulhall

✉️ For upcoming courses, register your interest by email: [email protected]

🔎 For our full list of courses, visit mandate.ie/courses

25/05/2026

📣 Calling all available members to join the Covalen workers on Friday at 12pm at Leinster House.

🖊️ Sign the petition NOW - link in comments

Proposed mass redundancies at Covalen threaten 720 jobs and workers are standing together to fight back. Workers deserve respect, fair treatment and a real voice in decisions that affect their futures.

📍 Leinster House
🕛 12PM
📅 Friday 29th May

19/05/2026

🔔Mandate has a vacancy for a Divisional Organiser and an Industrial Officer Organiser.

Both roles are located in our Western and North & West Region.

Click the links below for more information on each position and how to apply👇

Divisional Organiser position:

https://mandate.ie/2026/05/vacancies-divisional-organiser/

Industrial Officer Organiser position:

https://mandate.ie/2026/05/vacancies-industrial-officer/

06/05/2026

💬 Do you work in Brown Thomas Arnotts? Have your say in the upcoming negotiations!

🤝 As Mandate enters into negotiations with the company, it's time to strengthen your collective voice in your workplace and the upcoming collective bargaining process by joining.

📣 Mandate fights for better wages, benefits, and working conditions for retail workers as they have the backing of a larger group of employees.

✊ By becoming a member of Mandate, workers have the opportunity to have their voices heard, and to collectively work towards a more equitable and just workplace. With membership at just €4 per week, joining online is easy and straightforward. Together we are stronger!

02/05/2026

Mandate activists attending yesterday’s march ✊

01/05/2026

Can you afford to live?

Rent, childcare, food, fuel: the cost of living is hurting workers across Ireland.

📣 Calling all Mandate members: Join the march today May Day, May 1st as we celebrate workers and fight for a better Ireland.

Assemble at the Garden of Remembrance, 6.30pm, for the march to Beresford Place (Liberty Hall).
This will be followed by a night of ballads, bands, craic agus ceoil at Cleary's Pub, Amiens Street from 8.30pm.

Good music, great company, and a toast to workers everywhere.

28/04/2026

💶 ⚖️ Fair wages for all ages!

Mandate's Greg Caffrey claims that the sub-minimum wage rates for workers under 20 are in breach of Ireland’s employment equality legislation on age discrimination grounds.

"Our employment equality legislation unambiguously prohibits discrimination against a worker on the grounds of age. The current treatment of young people under the age of 20 – forced to work for subminimum wage rates – is a clear denial of this protective measure. Furthermore, the existence of subminimum rates indirectly discriminates against older workers, as their chance to compete for jobs in certain sectors is severely diminished when it is permissible to employ younger workers in preference to them at a lower rate of pay."

Read more at https://mandate.ie/2026/04/sub-minimum/

Mandate Trade Union’s Greg Caffrey has today said that the sub-minimum wage rates for workers under 20 are in breach of Ireland’s employment equality legislation on age discrimination grounds. Mr Caffrey was speaking at the unions biennial delegate conference in the Midlands Park Hotel, Portlaoi...

28/04/2026

Mandate NEC member Samantha Farrell speaking on motion 14: Sub-Minimum Wage at today's biennial delegate conference.

The Sub-Minimum Wage directly discriminates against young workers as it provides for young workers to be legally paid significantly lower rates of pay than that the National Minimum Wage of solely based upon a Young Workers age.

In recent years, Mandate has made repeated calls for the abolition of the blatant discriminatory practice of paying all workers under the age of 20, employed in minimum wage jobs, a rate that is less than the full statutory minimum wage. These demands were supported by the Low Pay Commission, who in 2024 issued a specific report that also called for the abolition of these subminimum rates.

It's time for the Government to act - fair wages for all ages!

28/04/2026

🛑 Abuse is not part of the job!

Mandate Dublin City Centre local council member Keith McGovern speaking on Motion 9: Protection of Retail Workers at the biennial delegate conference today.

A survey of Mandate Trade Union members in 2025 showed that:

• Nearly two-thirds of bar and retail workers (63.42%) have experienced verbal abuse in their workplace

• Over a quarter have received threats to their physical safety (28.2%) while almost an eighth (11.38%) have experienced assault in their role as bar and retail workers.

Mandate is urging Minister Alan Dillon and his Government to support Senator Mary Fitzpatrick’s Protection of Retail Workers Bill 2025.

27/04/2026

Mandate Assistant General Secretary Jim Fuery spoke of the need for Government to support decent jobs for workers in a changing retail environment at today's Biennial Delegate Conference.

🛒 "Online shopping, self-service checkouts, and click-and-collect models are reshaping retail. But they are also contributing to redundancies and restructuring across major employers. Mandate has been working to get the Government to support bricks-and-mortar retail through policies that protect and sustain decent employment and today we publicly call on them to step up to the plate here."