Section 39 workers ballot for strike over inaction on pay 

by | Feb 18, 2025 | Health, Latest News Home, Public Sector, SIPTU Bulletin

Unions representing staff in Section 39 community and voluntary organisations have been invited to attend talks at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) with Government representatives on Monday 3rd March. This comes in the face of an ongoing SIPTU Health Division...

Disability care workers’ pay left short

by | Feb 8, 2025 | Health, Intellectual Disability Sector, Latest News, Latest News Home

SIPTU has condemned the failure of publicly funded disability providers to increase pay, in line with National Minimum Wage (NMW) increases, for workers in disability services who carry out sleepover shifts.  This failure is leaving frontline disability workers out of...

SIPTU seeks meeting with new Transport Minister on transport police commitment

by | Jan 15, 2025 | Latest News, Latest News Home, Transport Sector, Transport, Energy, Aviation and Construction

SIPTU representatives have welcomed the inclusion in the Programme for Government of a commitment to establish a new transport police service with powers of arrest and under the control of the National Transport Authority, which is in line with the Union’s Travel Safe...

Incoming Government must expand public nursing home and home care provision

by | Dec 19, 2024 | Health, Latest News, Latest News Home

SIPTU, the Union of Health Care Assistants (HCA), has called on the incoming Government to expand and improve the public provision of nursing home and home care, following its release of the initial results of a survey of HCAs which highlights their concerns about low...

SIPTU says EPA report findings make sale of Bord na Mona Recycling untenable 

by | Dec 17, 2024 | Energy Sector, Latest News, Latest News Home, Transport, Energy, Aviation and Construction

SIPTU has stated that the proposed sale by the State of Bord Na Mona Recycling is untenable in light of a new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report which says Ireland will miss its mandatory EU recycling targets that apply from 2025 onwards. SIPTU Transport,...

SIPTU Address Joint Oireachtas Health Committee on HSE Staffing Levels 

by | Nov 5, 2024 | Health, SIPTU Bulletin

On Wednesday, 2nd October, SIPTU Health Division representatives and the INMO addressed the Joint Oireachtas Health Committee regarding staffing levels in the HSE. SIPTU’s submission to the Committee focused on: Making the case for a safe staffing framework that would...