
Raise The Roof march in Dublin on 26th November
SIPTU has welcomed today's announcement by the Living Wage Technical Group (LWTG) that its calculation of the Living Wage for Ireland has risen to €14.80. This new figure comes in response to the skyrocketing cost of living and calls for urgent government intervention. Read More
SIPTU representatives are calling on childcare employers to restart pay talks after an unacceptable proposal for a rate of €13.65 per hour for qualified Early Years Educators was made at the Joint Labour Committee (JLC) yesterday (25th September). Read More
The Labour Court has invited both parties in the GMC Civil and Mechanical Engineering strike to a hearing which will take place next Monday, October 2nd. SIPTU has replied positively to the Labour Court’s invitation and its request that industrial action be suspended in order to allow the Court to hear the dispute and issue recommendations. Read More
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Protecting quality jobs in Ireland and promoting Irish quality products.
“The far-right does not represent working people – trade unions do”, the message contained in a powerful anti-racist short video that was released by the ICTU on May Day.
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.