SIPTU Meath District Council seeks meeting with Minister on Our Lady’s Hospital A&E threat

by | Nov 15, 2021 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2021

The SIPTU Meath District Council has written to the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, seeking an urgent meeting with him to discuss the threat to downgrade accident and emergency facilities at Our Lady’s Hospital in Navan, county Meath....

SIPTU members in Laois and Offaly LES and Job Clubs to ballot for strike action

by | Nov 15, 2021 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2021

SIPTU members working in Local Employment Services (LES) and Job Clubs in county Laois and county Offaly are to ballot for strike action due to a government decision to terminate its contract with the existing not-for-profit community-based providers. SIPTU Public...

SIPTU welcomes Oireachtas Committee report on Job Clubs and LES

by | Nov 10, 2021 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2021

SIPTU has welcomed a report, published by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands, on Local Employment Services (LES) and Job Clubs which supports the retention of these services in their...

SIPTU seeks urgent meeting with ministers on rising anti-social behaviour on public transport

by | Nov 2, 2021 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2021

SIPTU has sought a meeting with government ministers and renewed its call for a dedicated transport police service to adequately counter the rise of anti-social behaviour on our public transport system. SIPTU Sector Organiser, John Murphy, said:...

SIPTU says a well-funded, dynamic, local public services model can boost living standards of all

by | Nov 1, 2021 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2021

SIPTU representatives have today (Monday, 1st November) called on the Government to ensure that the legacy of the pandemic is a well-funded, properly staffed, dynamic, local public service model that can boost the living standards of workers...

SIPTU campaigns to end multi-national companies using Ireland to circumvent workers’ rights

by | Oct 30, 2021 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2021

SIPTU representatives have called on the Government to act to end the use of Ireland by multi-national companies seeking to circumvent the European Works Council (EWC) directive and so undermining workers in other EU states conditions of employment. At a press...