The Irish Congress of Trade Unions, in association with the European Trade Union Confederation, welcomes the enlargement of the European Union, and in particular welcomes workers from the new states.
The role of trade unions is to protect and defend the interests of workers, and this website provides information about your basic rights in the workplace in Ireland. Click "more" below for further information in English, or select your national flag for information in your  own language. Email us for information on how to join a union     more>>

European Leaders attend May Day launch

In order to protect the rights of workers from the Accession States, Congress has prepared a multilingual Union Card which summarises those rights and offers the support and advice of the Union. On May Day 2004, an Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and the leaders of Trade Union Congresses from Ireland and all ten of the new Accession States join David Begg, General Secretary of Congress and Maria Helena Andre,  Deputy General Secretary of ETUC, to launch the new European Card     more>>