by | Jul 17, 2024 | Latest News, Latest News Home, Public Administration and Community
Dublin Fire Brigade resources were operating with ‘one hand tied behind its back’ in its response to the major civic disturbance in Coolock in Dublin on Monday according to SIPTU representatives. SIPTU Organiser, Geoff McEvoy, said: “Staff shortages have been an...
by | Jul 15, 2024 | Transport, Energy, Aviation and Construction
SIPTU has called for a full investigation into how footage of an incident last Friday where a female bus driver and member of the Union was shot with an airgun while working in the Limerick area has managed to be widely distributed on social media. SIPTU Transport,...
by | Jul 14, 2024 | Latest News, The Sunday Read
Forty-five feet long; 30 panels; miles of thread; yards of material; 250 adult and school student volunteers. The 1913 Lock-out Tapestry was unveiled by President Michael D Higgins in Liberty Hall. It was described by him as “…an imaginative work of art that...
by | Jul 13, 2024 | Latest News, Transport, Energy, Aviation and Construction
SIPTU representatives have called for urgent action on measures to combat anti-social behaviour on our public transport network following the shooting with an airgun of a female Bus Éireann driver and SIPTU member in her cab in Limerick earlier on Friday. SIPTU...
by | Jul 11, 2024 | Latest News, Transport, Energy, Aviation and Construction
SIPTU representatives have welcomed the partial success of its Tara Mines campaign in the form of new legislation which was passed in the Dáil this week which links Jobseeker’s Benefit to a worker’s previous earnings, paying them 60% of their previous gross weekly...
