Youth groups to protest dole cuts with a Dáil queue

by | Oct 22, 2013 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2013

Youth campaign groups, representing young workers, the unemployed and students will protest proposals contained in Budget 2014 to cut Job Seekers Allowance for those under 26 by forming a 'Dáil queue' on Kildare Street, Dublin,...

SIPTU Home Helps to meet in Letterkenny to discuss new contracts

by | Oct 21, 2013 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2013

SIPTU is holding information meetings for HSE Home Helps based in Donegal at 3.30 p.m. and 8.00 p.m. on Tuesday 29th October in the Mount Errigal hotel, Letterkenny. The meetings will discuss the recent Labour Court recommendation concerning Home Helps’...

SIPTU Home Helps meeting in Leitrim to discuss new contracts

by | Oct 18, 2013 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2013

SIPTU is holding an information meeting for HSE Home Helps based in County Leitrim in the Bush Hotel, Carrick-on-Shannon, at 6.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 30th October. The meeting will discuss the recent Labour Court recommendation concerning Home...

SIPTU supports Dáil protest against budget cuts affecting elderly people

by | Oct 18, 2013 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2013

SIPTU is supporting a protest rally over cuts affecting the elderly, the sick and the vulnerable in Budget 2014 which is taking place outside the Dáil at 1.15 p.m. on Tuesday, 22nd October. SIPTU National Retired Staff Council chairman, Frank...

SIPTU members at DCU to host meeting on ‘Defending the University’

by | Oct 18, 2013 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2013

Lecturers, researchers and administrative staff at Dublin City University (DCU) have launched a charter to reclaim Irish universities from excessive commercialisation and corporate influence. The charter will be discussed at a meeting in DCU at 1.00 p.m. on...

SIPTU condemns continued reduction in higher education funding

by | Oct 16, 2013 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2013

SIPTU has condemned the proposal in Budget 2014 to maintain a €25 million reduction in funding to higher education institutions that was introduced in 2013. SIPTU Education Sector chairperson, Jack McGinley, said: “This cut in funding means that...