by | May 13, 2024 | Latest News, Latest News Home, SIPTU Bulletin
Newly appointed SIPTU Manufacturing Divisional Organiser, Neil McGowan, has highlighted pay increases and utilising the EU Directive which calls for an expansion of collective bargaining to organise in new workplaces as his top priorities. Neil takes over the role of...
by | May 12, 2024 | Latest News Home, The Sunday Read
When heckled on a street corner about how he knew so much about revolution, James Connolly did not hesitate to respond that: “My business is revolution!” This insight offers the thread by which to understand the nature, and essential continuity, of Connolly’s career,...
by | May 5, 2024 | The Sunday Read
In this week’s Sunday Read, we look back at the struggles that inspired The Red Flag, written by Jim Connell, a man who is honoured this weekend at the Red Flag Festival culminating in a ceremony in Crossakiel, county Meath later today. In 1918, Jim Connell, an...
by | May 2, 2024 | Latest News, Latest News Home, Speeches
In a powerful speech for May Day, SIPTU Deputy General Secretary for Organising and Membership Development, Ethel Buckley calls out Ireland’s rigged economy and encourages people to get behind the Respect at Work campaign. Comrades, We gather to mark May Day,...
by | Apr 28, 2024 | Latest News
Ireland’s first Union Week starts tomorrow 29 April and runs to 6 May 2024. Union Week marks the culmination of ICTU’s Better in a Trade Union campaign, which promotes the value and benefits of trade union membership, including enhanced job security, advice and...
