The Union is confronted with structural challenges arising from economic globalisation, technological change and an increasingly ageing workforce and growing skills and labour shortages in some sectors and regions.
Tá dúshláin struchtúracha os comhair an Aontais a eascraíonn as domhandú eacnamaíoch, as athrú na teicneolaíochta, as dul in aois an fhórsa saothair agus as an méadú atá ag teacht ar an easnamh atá ar scileanna agus ar lucht saothair in earnálacha agus i réigiúin áirithe.