by | Mar 31, 2015 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2015
SIPTU members in Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus will meet tomorrow (Tuesday, 31st March) to consider balloting for industrial action following the breakdown of talks, facilitated by the Labour Relations Commission (LRC), on plans to privatise 10%...
by | Mar 30, 2015 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2015
Political and trade union activists from across the island attended a one-day conference on the future of Palestine in Liberty Hall on Saturday, 28th March. Among those who addressed the conference, entitled ‘Where Now for the Two State Solution...
by | Mar 30, 2015 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2015
SIPTU members have stated that a proposal received from the management of Aer Lingus, today (Monday, 30th March), in relation to the guaranteeing of workers’ terms and conditions of employment in the event of a take over by IAG, does not...
by | Mar 27, 2015 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2015
SIPTU General President, Jack O’Connor, has warned that a rigid interpretation of EU budgetary rules risked strangling Ireland’s fragile economic recovery and must now be handled flexibly by the European Commission. “If the Government...
by | Mar 27, 2015 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2015
A leading advocate for children in Gaza who was to invited to speak at a conference on Palestine in Dublin tomorrow has been refused a visa by the Israeli authorities. Dr Mona El Farra, projects director of the Middle East Children’s Alliance has refused a...
by | Mar 26, 2015 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2015
SIPTU has launched a new Health Care Sector at a conference in Dublin which was addressed by the Minister for Health Leo Varadkar today. Sector Organiser Marie Butler said that the new sector for health care assistants has been set up in response to the growing demand...
