by | Aug 23, 2024 | SIPTU Bulletin
Ireland is unique within the EU in having an entirely free-market approach to the collection of domestic waste. This model is not sustainable. It is, in summary, bad for the environment, bad for citizens and bad for workers. Ireland must reform its domestic waste...
by | Aug 23, 2024 | SIPTU Bulletin
Bord na Móna is conducting a strategic review of the operation of Bord na Móna Recycling. This is code for its intent to sell it to the highest bidder. SIPTU is campaigning to prevent the privatisation of Bord na Móna Recycling. SIPTU wrote to Minister Eamon Ryan at...
by | Aug 23, 2024 | SIPTU Bulletin
SIPTU’s campaign for pay justice for waste workers and reform of the domestic waste sector is paying political dividends. A cross-party Group has been established in the Dáil to reform the domestic waste sector. SIPTU waste representatives met the cross-party group in...
by | Aug 23, 2024 | SIPTU Bulletin
SIPTU’s membership across the Waste Sector has grown dramatically in the last nine months, increasing by over 70%, as workers in the industry get organised across the country. SIPTU organisers have been on sites and depots of all major providers in the last number of...
by | Aug 20, 2024 | Latest News, Latest News Home, Public Administration and Community
SIPTU Early Years Union is calling for ring-fenced State funding to support a €15 minimum wage rate for educators and a 10% increase to all Employment Regulation Order (ERO) rates in its 2025 Budget Submission, ‘Towards a Professional Wage for Early Years’. SIPTU...
