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...
by | Aug 29, 2024 | SIPTU Bulletin
Security industry workers have welcomed a new Employment Regulation Order (ERO) for the sector that came into force on 1st July and increased minimum hourly rates of pay. SIPTU Security Sector Organiser, Ed Kenny, said: “This new ERO saw the basic hourly rate of pay...
