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Big Start feature video for SIPTU's Biennial Delegate Conference 2022.
SIPTU members protest over plans to privatise local employment services
SIPTU members launched the ‘Our Community is Not for Sale’ campaign, demanding an immediate halt to tenders for private companies to bid for state contracts to run programmes to assist people getting back into the workforce, on Friday, 9th July.
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Protecting quality jobs in Ireland and promoting Irish quality products.
Irish woman Esther Lynch elected to top job in European trade union movement
Irish woman and former Irish Congress of Trade Unions official, Esther Lynch has been elected General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). Read More
SIPTU calls on Rehab Group to urgently pay redundancy owed to Limerick workers
SIPTU members who worked at Rehab Enterprises in, Raheen, county Limerick, have expressed their deep frustration at the delay by the Rehab Group in implementing a Labour Court recommendation that they should be paid outstanding redundancy payments. Read More
SIPTU says employment permits do not resolve retention issues of home care workers
A recent government announcement that 1,000 General Employment permits will be made available for home care workers from January 2023 will not address the core issues of recruitment and retention of carers in the home care sector, according to SIPTU Organiser, Pat Flannery. Read More
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- Commemoration of 1972 bombings in Dublin >
- Workers now legally entitled to receive tips and gratuities paid in electronic form >
- SIPTU member in Wexford awarded €40,000 for constructive dismissal >
- SIPTU calls on Rehab Group to respect Labour Court and pay redundancy to Limerick workers >
- SIPTU delegates told focus is on rolling back the privatisation of public services >
- Construction unions to seek early compensation for soaring rise in living costs >
- SIPTU members protest at Bunratty over failure to transfer Shannon Heritage tourism sites to Clare County Council >
- ‘Keep Water Public’ campaign launched calling for referendum on public water services >
- Sláintecare essential to reform of dysfunctional healthcare system says Shortall >
- SIPTU Deputy General Secretary says public sector funding faces 5% cut by 2025 >
- SIPTU member wins €18,000 for discriminatory dismissal due to temporary disability >
- INMO and SIPTU statement on HSE decision to close Clifden District Hospital >
- SIPTU members meet Minister for Health to demand Covid-19 payment for contract workers >
- Meath Trades Council backs Raise the Roof and Keep Water Public campaigns >
- SIPTU seeks urgent meeting on bus driver shortages with National Transport Authority >
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Commemoration of 1972 bombings in Dublin
Poet, Rachael Hegarty, reading at the commemoration to mark the deaths of two bus workers, Tommy Duffy and George Bradshaw, who died in a loyalist bombing on 1stDecember, 1972 at Sackville Place in Dublin.
Irish Wheelchair Association
Industrial action by SIPTU members in the Irish Wheelchair Association explained
Linda Scully - Community Sector
Linda Scully – community worker and President of the SIPTU Community Sector speaking about the industrial action on 6th July
Joe Kearney - Community Sector
Joe Kearney, community worker speaking about the industrial action on 6th July
Dominic Cavalier - Community Sector
Dominic Cavalier – community worker speaking about the industrial action on 6th July
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