SIPTU demands automatic extensions of service for retirement age health workers

by | Aug 17, 2016 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2016

SIPTU Health representatives have demanded that the Minister for Health, Simon Harris, sanction automatic extensions of service to all low paid health workers who require them, in order to prevent those over 65 being forced into financial hardship or...

SIPTU secures agreement on payment of community allowance to mental health nurses

by | Aug 16, 2016 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2016

SIPTU nursing representatives have secured agreement on the payment schedule for a community allowance for nurses in the mental health services following talks with HSE management at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) today (Tuesday, 16th August). SIPTU...

SIPTU members in St Aidan’s Services to vote on WRC proposals

by | Aug 16, 2016 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2016

SIPTU members in St Aidan’s Services, Gorey, County Wexford, a section 39 organisation providing day and residential services for people with intellectual disabilities, are to ballot on Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) proposals which...

SIPTU members to take strike action at Glen Dimplex plant in Newry on Thursday

by | Aug 16, 2016 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2016

SIPTU members at the Glen Dimplex manufacturing plant in Newry, County Down, will implement a work stoppage on Thursday (18th August), in a dispute at the company concerning pay. SIPTU Organiser, Denis Sheridan said: “The workers had been...

SIPTU Ambulance Professionals to ballot on WRC proposals

by | Aug 16, 2016 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2016

SIPTU representatives have today (Tuesday, 16th August) issued ballot papers to members, working in the National Ambulance Service (NAS), ahead of a vote on Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) proposals which include increased funding for the...

SIPTU demands end to discrimination against LEADER and SICAP workers

by | Aug 16, 2016 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2016

SIPTU has demanded that the Government complies with a Labour Court recommendation to provide staff made redundant following changes to the LEADER and SICAP local development programmes with redundancy terms comparable to workers on similar schemes. SIPTU Sector...