by | Jul 3, 2013 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2013
SIPTU drivers in Dublin Bus are to commence a ballot for strike action after they overwhelmingly rejected proposals to cut their pay and reduce their conditions of employment. At a meeting this afternoon (Wednesday, 3rd July), the SIPTU Dublin Bus drivers...
by | Jul 2, 2013 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2013
President and Delegates. The misguided public policy of one-sided austerity, which reflects the culture and the interests so dramatically revealed in the Anglo Irish tapes has utterly failed, inflicting misery on the peoples of Europe in the process. The...
by | Jul 2, 2013 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2013
Speaking on the economy at the ICTU conference in Belfast today (Tuesday 2nd July) SIPTU President, Jack O’Connor, called on the Irish Government to immediately “ramp up the domestic economy” or face exacerbating the economic and social...
by | Jul 2, 2013 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2013
SIPTU has welcomed a report by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions into workplace innovation in Ireland. In one of its key findings the ‘Work Organisation and Innovation in Ireland’ report concludes that workplace...
by | Jul 1, 2013 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2013
SIPTU has called on the Health Service Executive (HSE) to place the utmost emphasis on the health and safety of its employees and ensure that the circumstances that led to the death of a paramedic in 2010 are never repeated. The call follows the Dublin District Court...
by | Jun 28, 2013 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2013
Reacting to the publication on Thursday, 27th June, by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) of the Quarterly National Accounts, indicating that the Irish economy is in recession, SIPTU economist, Marie Sherlock, said it is clear that...
