SIPTU Ambulance Professionals to ballot on WRC proposals

by | Aug 16, 2016 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2016

SIPTU representatives have today (Tuesday, 16th August) issued ballot papers to members, working in the National Ambulance Service (NAS), ahead of a vote on Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) proposals which include increased funding for the...

SIPTU demands end to discrimination against LEADER and SICAP workers

by | Aug 16, 2016 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2016

SIPTU has demanded that the Government complies with a Labour Court recommendation to provide staff made redundant following changes to the LEADER and SICAP local development programmes with redundancy terms comparable to workers on similar schemes. SIPTU Sector...

SIPTU President condemns government pensions report as “useless window dressing”

by | Aug 14, 2016 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2016

SIPTU General President, Jack O’Connor, has described the Report of the Interdepartmental Group on Fuller Working Lives as “a useless piece of window dressing” which fails to deal with the key aspects of the developing crisis involving...

SIPTU members in Dublin Bus vote overwhelmingly for industrial and strike action over pay

by | Aug 12, 2016 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2016

SIPTU members who work as drivers with Dublin Bus have voted by a majority of 95% for industrial and strike action in the pay dispute at the company. SIPTU clerical members also voted to support industrial action and strike action by 87% and 80%, respectively....

SIPTU representatives to attend WRC to discuss St Aidan’s Services dispute

by | Aug 11, 2016 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2016

SIPTU representatives will attend the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) today (Thursday, August 11th) to discuss the dispute in St Aidan’s Services, Gorey, Co. Wexford over the non-payment of increments due to care workers. SIPTU Health...

SIPTU members in St Aidan’s Services protest against the non-payment of increments

by | Aug 10, 2016 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2016

SIPTU members in St Aidan’s Services, Gorey, Co. Wexford, a section 39 organisation providing day and residential services for people with intellectual disabilities, held the first in a series of work stoppages today (Wednesday,...