by | Sep 2, 2024 | Ambulance Sector, Health, SIPTU Bulletin
Following SIPTU members’ vote not to accept the Pay Modernisation and Transformation proposals in the National Ambulance Sector last year, talks have been ongoing between the Union and National Ambulance Service management on an alternative proposed framework...
by | Sep 1, 2024 | History, Latest News
What women’s voices do we hear from the Lockout narrative? Perhaps the best known, in 2013 terms, would be that of Rosie Hackett, the meek-looking and tiny Jacob’s biscuit factory worker, trade unionist and protester. For long an unsung hero of the Dublin Lockout and...
by | Aug 30, 2024 | History
A small portrait drawing of the first of these martyrs, 33-year-old labourer James Nolan, appeared in the 3rd September 1913 issue of the Irish Independent. It does not appear to have been published since. Rather than being a “Lockout Martyr”, the North Strand man was...
by | Aug 29, 2024 | SIPTU Bulletin
The latest update on the financial situation of the Credit Union sector issued by the Central Bank should provide a positive context to the enterprise level pay talks which will shortly be undertaken by the Union, according to SIPTU Organiser Peader Nolan. The update,...
by | Aug 29, 2024 | SIPTU Bulletin
An amendment to the Employment Regulation Order (ERO) for the contract cleaning sector came into force on 1st June and includes a new minimum hourly pay rate of €13.30 for all workers over 20 years of age. The ERO not only sets minimum pay rates, the number of paid...
