The Workers Party believes that the creation of sustainable, well paid jobs, across the entire economy and across all regions is one of the key tasks of government and is a necessary prerequisite to building a Socialist society. The workers' share of income has been falling for decades during which as a rapacious capitalist class hass seen its wealth and income grow. And this has been happening while labour productivity has been rising. Despite full government coffers, workers in Ireland recieve the lowest share of the state's income of European countries.

In addition to this injustice, attacks on the working class have increased through precarious, part-time, temporary, poorly paid, casualised employment offering no long-term job security. The growth in casualisation, bogus self-employment and precarious work impinges most severely on women, on young workers, and on migrant workers.

Attacks on public sector jobs and services have led to a race to the bottom economy and precipitated unprecedented industrial action by workers across the island in defence of their jobs, conditions and pay.