SIPTU supports call for the abolition of mandatory retirement in the public service

by | May 3, 2017 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2017

SIPTU Health representatives have stated their support for the Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2016 which was before the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality, today (Wednesday, 3rd May). SIPTU Health Division...

Fr Peter McVerry to call for public house building programme at May Day rally tomorrow

by | Apr 30, 2017 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2017

Homelessness campaigner, Fr Peter McVerry, will call for an effective public home building programme at the May Day march and rally in Dublin, which begins at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1, tomorrow...

SIPTU says non-profit sector report highlights need for workers’ pay restoration

by | Apr 28, 2017 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2017

SIPTU has highlighted the findings of a new report on non-profit companies indicating that those employed in them, on average, have lower wages than staff elsewhere in the economy, as underlining the need for pay restoration for workers in that...

SIPTU members at DAA vote against WRC proposals

by | Apr 28, 2017 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2017

SIPTU members in the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA), excluding Airport Police and Fire Service, have voted against the acceptance of Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) proposals contained in the Company/Union Framework document in relation to terms and...

SIPTU members in Irish Rail and school bus drivers vote in favour of industrial action

by | Apr 28, 2017 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2017

SIPTU members in Irish Rail and those employed as school bus drivers by Bus Éireann have voted in favour of taking industrial action in support of their colleagues in Bus Éireann in a ballot counted in Liberty Hall, Dublin 1, today...

May Day march in Dublin on Monday will protest Government failure on housing crisis

by | Apr 27, 2017 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2017

The annual May Day March in Dublin on Monday (1st May) will highlight the opposition of trade unions and housing activists to a Government plan to sell off local authority land to private developers, which they condemn as an ineffective way to tackle the housing...