BNM Recycling sale is an act of economic vandalism says SIPTU

by | Feb 10, 2025 | Latest News, Latest News Home

SIPTU has demanded a halt to the sale of Bord na Móna (BNM) Recycling and an investigation into the attempt to privatise part of a profitable public company in a manner which runs counter to economic and environmental best practice. SIPTU Divisional Organiser, Adrian...

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 conference told we need an economy for workers not billionaires 

by | Feb 7, 2025 | Latest News, Latest News Home

An economy which works for workers rather than billionaires must be built in Ireland, SIPTU Deputy General Secretary, Greg Ennis, told delegates attending the Union’s Services Division Conference in Galway.  Calling for Government action on providing workers in...

SIPTU will demand TDs honour their pledge to improve workers’ rights

by | Feb 6, 2025 | Latest News

The 89 TDs, a majority of TDs in Dáil Eireann, who signed the ‘Respect at Work’ pledge will be held to account by trade unions to ensure they keep their commitment to improve workers’ rights, SIPTU Deputy General Secretary, Ethel Buckley, told the Union’s Services...

SIPTU conference told unions must help build left alternative to the Government

by | Feb 6, 2025 | Latest News, Latest News Home

Trade unions must work with left-wing parties to ensure that the electorate has a credible alternative to the ‘most conservative Government in living memory’, the SIPTU Services Divisional Organiser, Adrian Kane, told his members’ conference in Galway. Addressing more...

Building a better world as one big union

by | Feb 2, 2025 | Latest News, SIPTU Bulletin, The Sunday Read

“He fought for the loaf of bread as no man before him had ever fought; but, with the loaf of bread, he also brought the flask of wine and the book of verse.” Every year at our Larkin Commemoration, people come together to re-examine, evaluate and be energised by the...