Mandate is a trade union representing retail, administrative and distributive workers in Ireland.
[1] The merger was criticised by some members because the word "union" was not contained in the title.
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.
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.
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