by | Sep 2, 2019 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2019
SIPTU representatives have today (Monday, 2nd September) called for the establishment of a Living Wage Fund for workers in the childcare sector as part of Budget 2020, in order to ensure an increase in the number of quality services for children. SIPTU...
by | Aug 29, 2019 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2019
SIPTU representatives have today written to Meat Industry Ireland, the body which represents processors in the industry, calling on it to ensure that union members do not suffer a financial loss because of ongoing protests at processing plants around the...
by | Aug 28, 2019 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2019
SIPTU Waterford District Council will release new data showing the extent and impact of the spread of precarious work practices in the county at a seminar in the Tower Hotel, Waterford City on Friday, 30th August. Speakers at the seminar will include Mayor...
by | Aug 27, 2019 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2019
SIPTU members at the Irish Pride Fine Foods plant in Taghmon, county Wexford, have voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking strike action following a refusal by management to implement a Labour Court recommendation concerning trade union recognition. SIPTU...
by | Aug 26, 2019 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2019
The Association of Childhood Professionals (ACP), SIPTU, and PLÉ, the Irish Association of Academics in Early Childhood Education and Care in Higher Education, have formed a working group to explore the establishment of a professional...
by | Aug 22, 2019 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2019
The SIPTU Dublin District Council has said that calls for a charge to be placed on employees’ car parking spaces amount to an attempt to impose a new and unfair tax on workers in the city. SIPTU Dublin District Council Joint Secretary, Brendan Carr,...