Dublin Firefighters call out Government pensions betrayal

by | Jan 28, 2025 | Latest News, Latest News Home, Press Releases

Younger members of Dublin Fire Brigade, who feel betrayed by the new Government due to its failure to honour commitments on pension reform, delivered a letter to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Dublin 1, at lunchtime today calling for an...

SIPTU has commended Local Authority workers for their work during Storm Éowyn

by | Jan 24, 2025 | Latest News, Latest News Home, Press Releases

SIPTU representatives have commended the Union’s members across the Local Authorities Sector for their unwavering dedication to providing essential frontline services, with often extremely stretched resources, to communities during Storm Éowyn and its aftermath. ...

Legacy of the Lockout

by | Jan 19, 2025 | Education, History, Latest News, The Sunday Read

The Great Dublin Lockout remains the seminal event in the history of the Irish working class. That epic struggle also ranks as one of the great battles in the history of the workers’ movement internationally. Until recently, it was viewed as some kind of curtain...

SIPTU Section 39 workers to ballot for strike over Government inaction on pay

by | Jan 17, 2025 | Latest News, Latest News Home, Press Releases

SIPTU’s Health Division is to begin a ballot of up to 5,000 members working in Section 39 Organisations for strike action due to the failure of the Government to honour a pay agreement struck at the Workplace Relations Commission in October 2023. SIPTU Sector...

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...

Action on care workers’ pay needed due to recruitment crisis

by | Jan 14, 2025 | Latest News, Latest News Home, Press Releases

SIPTU representatives have called on the Government to honour a commitment to raise the Minimum Annual Remuneration thresholds required to obtain an employment permit for Health Care Assistants (HCAs) and Home Support Workers or face a worsening crisis in these...