Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail supporter? Anthony
Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony
Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony
RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony
Waiting for SIPO Anthony
Public Inquiry >>
Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.
Julian Assange is finally free ! Tue Jun 25, 2024 21:11 | indy
Stand With Palestine: Workplace Day of Action on Naksa Day Thu May 30, 2024 21:55 | indy
It is Chemtrails Month and Time to Visit this Topic Thu May 30, 2024 00:01 | indy
Hamburg 14.05. "Rote" Flora Reoccupied By Internationalists Wed May 15, 2024 15:49 | Internationalist left
Eddie Hobbs Breaks the Silence Exposing the Hidden Agenda Behind the WHO Treaty Sat May 11, 2024 22:41 | indy
Human Rights in Ireland >>
Victory! Hospitals That Brought Back Mask Mandates Backtrack After Complaints Tue Jul 23, 2024 15:30 | Dr Gary Sidley
A victory in the mask wars! Two hospital providers that brought back mask mandates have backtracked and scrapped them following complaints from Daily Sceptic readers and Smile Free supporters.
The post Victory! Hospitals That Brought Back Mask Mandates Backtrack After Complaints appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Read it and Weep: The BBC Journalists Taking Home Six Figure Salaries Courtesy of the Licence Fee Pa... Tue Jul 23, 2024 13:45 | Will Jones
Read it and weep: the list of the BBC journalists taking home six figure salaries courtesy of the licence fee payer. Disgraced presenter Huw Edwards came top with £475k despite being off air for nine months of the year.
The post Read it and Weep: The BBC Journalists Taking Home Six Figure Salaries Courtesy of the Licence Fee Payer appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
David Lammy: The Foreign Secretary Who Called Trump ?a Racist KKK and Nazi Sympathiser? and Refuses ... Tue Jul 23, 2024 12:43 | Peter Harris
Britain's new Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, is on record calling Donald Trump "a racist KKK and Nazi sympathiser" and has refused to apologise. This is clearly going to be a problem, says Peter Harris.
The post David Lammy: The Foreign Secretary Who Called Trump “a Racist KKK and Nazi Sympathiser” and Refuses to Apologise appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Catching Covid Does Not Lower Your IQ Tue Jul 23, 2024 09:00 | Noah Carl
Headlines earlier this year proclaimed that catching Covid may knock up to 6 points off your IQ. A new study punctures this claim: there was no decline in cognitive test scores after Covid infection.
The post Catching Covid Does Not Lower Your IQ appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The BBC Has ?Fact-Checked? Labour?s Claim that Renewables are Cheaper than Fossil Fuels and Declared... Tue Jul 23, 2024 07:00 | Paul Homewood
The BBC has ?fact-checked? Labour's claim that a unit of power from a new solar or wind project is cheaper than the cost from a new gas generator and found it to be true. But it's false, says Paul Homewood.
The post The BBC Has ?Fact-Checked? Labour?s Claim that Renewables are Cheaper than Fossil Fuels and Declared it to be True. But it?s False appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Lockdown Skeptics >>
Voltaire, international edition
Netanyahu soon to appear before the US Congress? It will be decisive for the suc... Thu Jul 04, 2024 04:44 | en
Voltaire, International Newsletter N°93 Fri Jun 28, 2024 14:49 | en
Will Israel succeed in attacking Lebanon and pushing the United States to nuke I... Fri Jun 28, 2024 14:40 | en
Will Netanyahu launch tactical nuclear bombs (sic) against Hezbollah, with US su... Thu Jun 27, 2024 12:09 | en
Will Israel provoke a cataclysm?, by Thierry Meyssan Tue Jun 25, 2024 06:59 | en
Voltaire Network >>
View Comments Titles Only
save preference
Comments (6 of 6)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6It has now become clear the driving force behind the electricians REA is to line the pockets of the three parties who set it up. TEEU AECI and ECA have never let it out that they all have received indirect payments from enforcement of the agreement.
It is a totally wrong that these organisations profited while many good employers were put out of business for not complying with an agreement they had no part of.
It is sickening to see that TEEU officials put out the message that workers rights were their number one concern, when the real agenda was to line their own pockets
EXTRACT FROM TEEU NEWSLETTER
____________________________________________________________
"Keeping a close eye on Construction and Contracting"
"Despite the slow down (mainly outside the greater Dublin area) TEEU continues to negotiate competitive wages and conditions for our members in the contracting sector. Charlie Prizeman, National Industrial Officer, continues to visit sites throughout the state and has been successful in ensuring that our members in the electrical and mechanical contracting industry are not denied their entitlements".
_____________________________________________________________
Now that this racketeering has been well and truly exposed the main players should not be allowed to walk away Scott free. What they have done is fraud and these company directors should be made pay back the pension money they have taken.
The inception, operation and conduct of EPACE Ltd, and indeed the Construction Workers Pension Scheme reminds me very much of the true saying
“Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principal.”
Sums it all up really
John McCoy's report certainly seems to shine some light onto shady areas of the industry ,but in all truth it's a little hard for non- electricians to follow all the circuits and threads . Here’s a bit of a glossary I got from the web :
TEEU : Technical Engineering and Electrical Union
AECI : Association of Electrical Contractors Ireland
ECA : Electrical Contractors Association
R.E.A : Registered Employment Agreement
EPACE according to their website is an organization “formed under the auspices of the National Joint Industrial Council for the Electrical Contracting Industry. The primary objective of EPACE is to advise Electrical Contractors of their responsibilities under the Registered Employment Agreement (REA) and to ensure compliance with same.”
-------------------------------------
John’s report lists the “profits” of the TEEU AECI ECA ,but I’m not sure whether the amounts paid should be considered as profits rather than as fees paid to the organizations . I assume that John , Paul and Stradbrook think that these fees /profits are excessive ,but without more information on why they were paid it’s hard to judge.
A contractor who is struggling told me yesterday his 3rd year apprentice’s father contacted him and asked him that if he could not afford to keep his son on he was prepared to pay him, i.e. the contractor the apprentices wages so the lad could finish his apprenticeship.
Should I report this to EPACE? Or does the father unlike the TEEU live in the real world.
Just to make figures quoted above a little clearer
Money Paid out to TEEU from EPACE
2002 €4000
2003 €13000 plus €14500
2004 €6444 plus €42000
2005 €13500 plus €9500
2006 €60850
TOTAL to TEEU €163794
Money Paid out to AECI from EPACE
2002 €4000
2003 €10500 plus €7000
2004 €4000 plus €19500
2005 €8000 plus €2750
2006 €13700
TOTAL to AECI €69450
Money Paid out to ECA from EPACE
2002 €6500
2003 €8000 plus €7000
2004 €4000 plus €7000
2005 €4000
2006 €4000
TOTAL to AECI €40500
Profit made by EPACE after Payouts to TEEU, AECI and ECA
2001 €163815
2002 €65936
2003 €192166
2004 €137044
2005 €115525
2006 €76536
Total profit made in these years €587370
All this information is taken from the attached pdf s from Pensions and Conditions Ltd (EPACE)
Hope this makes things clearer
I refer to my previous posting with regards to a father of a 4th year apprentice whose employer was struggling to keep the apprentice on, and the father offering to pay his wages to keep him on until the lad could finish his apprenticeship.
The update is that this 4th year apprentice finished up last Friday, and is now on the ever growing unemployment line.
Turns out his father could not afford to pay his wage which works out like this
39 hours 647.01
Employer PRSI 67.42
Employer Pension €30.54 (Without non required levies to EPACE and others)
Total cost €744.97 per week
Shame this poor 21 year old lad has bob hope and no hope of getting another employer to take him on so he can finish his apprenticeship.
The apprentice offered to go down to 3rd year rate, but his employer didn’t want to get caught by the vigilante’s in EPACE/TEEU so he declined the offer, in any event he just didn’t have the work for the lad.
Any chance EPACE Ltd/TEEU who priced this boy out of a job, and a career could throw some of their €802,370.00 that they had in the bank as of 31/12/07 (as stated on their filed accounts) to bail him out.??????????????????
And these people in EPACE and the TEEU claim to be protecting their members, if it wasn’t so sad it would be funny.
But it’s not funny it’s the REAL WORLD, and those who profess to want to protect their members should get with the REAL WORLD.
SHAME ON YOU