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|name = Mandate |
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|location_country= [[Ireland]] |
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|members = 40,000 (2005) |
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|full_name = Mandate Trade Union |
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|founded = {{Start date|1994|df=y}} |
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|headquarters = O'Lehane House, Cavendish Row, [[Dublin]] |
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|publication = ''Shopfloor'' |
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|key_people = Lorraine O’Brien, General Secretary |
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|website = {{URL|http://www.mandate.ie}} |
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[[File:2009-09-27 Ireland Dublin Mandate Trade Union 079a.jpg|thumb|Door to home of "Mandate - The Union of Retail, Bar and Administrative Workers" in [[Dublin]]]] |
[[File:2009-09-27 Ireland Dublin Mandate Trade Union 079a.jpg|thumb|Door to home of "Mandate - The Union of Retail, Bar and Administrative Workers" in [[Dublin]]]] |
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'''Mandate''' is a [[trade union]] representing retail, administrative and distributive workers in [[Ireland]]. |
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| ⚫ | 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]].<ref name="marsh">Arthur Marsh, ''Historical Directory of Trade Unions'', vol.5, pp.119-120</ref> 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". |
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It describes itself as: |
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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.<ref>"[http://www.independent.ie/regionals/argus/news/owen-was-at-helm-of-mandate-trade-union-26900350.html Owen was at helm of Mandate trade union]", ''[[Irish Independent]]'', 3 June 2005</ref> |
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:''The Union of Retail, Bar and Administrative Workers'' |
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A new logo was designed in 2009. |
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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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Debenhams workers urge Taoiseach over redundancy pay|date=3 February 2021|url=https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0203/1194848-debenhams-dispute///|publisher=RTÉ|access-date=3 February 2021|last1=Miley|first1=Ingrid}}</ref> |
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==History== |
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The two unions which merged to form Mandate had long histories of their own. IDATU (the Irish Distributive & Administrative Union) was founded as the Drapery Assistants Association around 1903 by [[Michael O'Lehane]] of [[Macroom]], [[Co. Cork]], a founding member of the [[Irish Congress of Trade Unions]]. The union was founded after a major fire took the lives of a number of female shop workers in [[Limerick]] who were living in cramped and unsafe conditions overhead one of the city's major drapery shops. |
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==General Secretaries== |
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The union later changed its name to the Irish Union of Distributive Workers and Clerks (IUDWC), but this was again changed in the early 1980 to the Irish Distributive & Administrative Trade Union (IDATU). |
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:1994: Owen Nulty |
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:2005: John Douglas |
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:2020: Gerry Light<ref>{{cite web|title=Mandate NEC appoint Gerry Light as General Secretary Designate|date=21 July 2020|url=https://mandate.ie/2020/07/mandate-nec-appoint-gerry-light-as-general-secretary-designate//|publisher=Mandate Trade Union|access-date=3 February 2021}}</ref> |
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2023-2024Jonathan Hogan Interim General Secretary. |
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2024: Lorraine O’Brien |
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The union experienced rapid growth in the 1980s under the stewardship of General Secretary John Mitchell who was seen as a left-winger. In 1984 a number of female workers at [[Dunnes Stores]] department store in [[Henry Street (Dublin)|Henry Street]], [[Dublin]] refused to sell [[South African]] oranges as part of the growing campaign against the Apartheid regime then in power. Mitchell gave full support to the workers and a long strike / lockout ensued.<ref>[http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/irishafa/dunnesstores.html&date=2009-10-26+00:33:08 Anti-Fascist Action, Ireland<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The action made international headlines and at one stage a delegation of Dunnes Workers led by Mitchell were expelled from South Africa where they had gone to meet [[Archbishop Desmond Tutu]]. |
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Mitchell was ousted from his position in 1988, leading to a major controversy and claims of unfair dismissal from himself and leading supporters. He was also heavily criticised for expanding the union into Northern Ireland where a row took place with the rival GMB union. Mitchell took legal action to secure reinstatement but eventually the union made a settlement with him, but he was not reinstated.<ref>http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2001/10/28/story307423828.asp</ref> |
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==References== |
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Latest revision as of 14:07, 3 December 2024
Mandate Trade Union | |
| Founded | 1994 |
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| Headquarters | O'Lehane House, Cavendish Row, Dublin |
| Location | |
| Members | 40,000 (2005) |
Key people | Lorraine O’Brien, General Secretary |
Publication | Shopfloor |
| Affiliations | ICTU |
| Website | www |
Mandate is a trade union representing retail, administrative and distributive workers in Ireland.
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.[1] 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.[2]
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.[3]
General Secretaries
[edit]- 1994: Owen Nulty
- 2005: John Douglas
- 2020: Gerry Light[4]
2023-2024Jonathan Hogan Interim General Secretary.
2024: Lorraine O’Brien
References
[edit]- ^ Arthur Marsh, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.5, pp.119-120
- ^ "Owen was at helm of Mandate trade union", Irish Independent, 3 June 2005
- ^ Miley, Ingrid (3 February 2021). "Debenhams workers urge Taoiseach over redundancy pay". RTÉ. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
- ^ "Mandate NEC appoint Gerry Light as General Secretary Designate". Mandate Trade Union. 21 July 2020. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
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