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...
by | Jul 8, 2024 | SIPTU Bulletin, Transport, Energy, Aviation and Construction
SIPTU has strongly criticised the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan, for failing, to date, to meet with Union representatives to discuss the threatened privatisation of Bord na Mona Recycling, which they say will be detrimental to...
by | Jul 8, 2024 | SIPTU Bulletin
Following a protracted pay dispute which began in 2022 and included a vote for industrial action, a long-term pay agreement was concluded for members in Zenith-Bantry Bay Terminals Ltd, County Cork. The pay agreement reached expires on the 31st September 2027. The...
