Gerry McMahon is an acknowledged national expert in People Management. He has over 35 years’ experience - as a workplace investigator (on bullying/harassment/ disciplinary/dismissal/grievance issues), trainer, negotiator, facilitator, mediator, arbitrator and team builder - across a wide range of employment sectors. He is the M.D. of the H.R. training and advisory company Productive Personnel Ltd.
Gerry has also had an extensive range of books and articles published and been a columnist with the Industrial Relations News, Irish Times, Sunday Business Post, and Irish Independent and expert commentator on H.R./Employee Relations for R.T.E. and TV3/Virgin. He has also served on numerous Legal Island and C.I.P.D. judging panels and is a Council member of the Irish Association for Industrial Relations.
Contact: Tel. 087-2471415; E-Mail: ppl1gerry@gmail.com
Introduction ⚓︎
Despite the furore about working conditions at Amazon in Alabama, USA, their employees recently voted 2:1 vote in favour of retaining non-union status. This enabled them to remain within the ranks of (the well over) 90% of America’s non-union private sector workers. However, it won’t have escaped the attention of many employers that the new US President Joe Biden has signalled his administration’s backing for collective bargaining and union recognition. Indeed, this recently prompted Ibec’s CEO – when addressing the Employment Bar Association - to warn that this may influence developments in Ireland, as ‘the traditional route in Ireland has been very much wedded to the US tradition and the Biden administration has very firmly swung the pendulum
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