MRCI, together with 23 organisations – unions, academics and employer bodies, has written a joint letter to Minister Alan Dillon calling for real reform of the employment permit system. Workers on general employment permits deserve the freedom to change jobs, stand up for their rights and leave exploitation behind.
List of organisations who joined us:
- Lassane Ouedraogo, Africa Solidarity Centre Ireland
- Dr Salome Mbugua, AkiDwA
- Tomás Sercovich, Business in the Community
- Ian McArdle, Communications Workers’ Union
- Richard King, Crosscare
- Tinu Achioya, Cultúr Migrant Centre
- John Lannon, Doras
- Des Derwin, Dublin Council of Trade Unions
- Teresa Buczkowska, Immigrant Council of Ireland
- Alexander Homits, Independent Workers’ Union
- Joe O’Brien, Irish Council for Civil Liberties
- Rebecca Gorman, Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed
- Neil McDonnell, Irish SME Association
- Nelia Rareza, The Great Care Cop
- Annie Rozario, Gort Resource Centre
- Jim Fuery, Mandate Trade Union
- Dr Clíodhna Murphy, School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University
- Dr Rhiannon Bandiera, School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University
- Varghese Joy, Migrant Nurses Ireland
- Doireann Crosson, National Women’s Council
- Ciara Fitzgibbon and Kostas Kapantais, Nasc, the Migrant and Refugee Rights Centre
- Cherif Labreche, New Communities Partnership
- Ethel Buckley, SIPTU
- Michael O’Brien, Unite the Union
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