SIPTU condemns Irish Rail funding fishing contest while denying pay increases

by | Sep 13, 2017 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2017

SIPTU representatives of staff in Irish Rail have condemned a decision by the company to sponsor a fishing competition in Northern Ireland while at the same time refusing to provide workers with a long overdue pay increases. SIPTU Organiser, Paul Cullen,...

Mayor of Fingal attends tenth day of protest in support of school cleaners in Swords

by | Sep 13, 2017 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2017

The Mayor of Fingal, Mary McCamley, has attended a protest this afternoon (Wednesday, 13th September) by school cleaners to highlight the loss of their jobs, outside St. Cronan’s Senior National School, Brackenstown,...

SIPTU condemns act of vandalism on ambulance at Mater Hospital in Dublin

by | Sep 11, 2017 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2017

SIPTU representatives have condemned an apparent act of vandalism in which the windows of a Health Service Executive (HSE) ambulance, which was parked outside the Mater Hospital in Dublin 7, were broken in the early hours of this morning (Monday,...

SIPTU welcomes call by Minister Zappone for Early Years educators to join a union

by | Sep 7, 2017 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2017

SIPTU Big Start Campaign activists have welcomed a call by Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Katherine Zappone, for workers in the sector to join a union which was made at the Kennedy Summer School, New Ross, County Wexford, this...

Wicklow County Council unanimously calls for greater investment in Early Years sector

by | Sep 5, 2017 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2017

A meeting of Wicklow County Council voted unanimously to back a call by the SIPTU Big Start campaign for increased state investment in the Early Years sector at a meeting in County Buildings, Wicklow Town, County Wicklow, on Monday (4th September)....

SIPTU calls for extensive fire risk audit in light of deficiencies in school safety standards

by | Sep 4, 2017 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2017

SIPTU full-time and retained firefighter representatives have called for the urgent commencement of a comprehensive fire risk audit of recently built public and residential properties following the discovery of deficiencies in safety standards at several schools....