News Archive

SIPTU has suspended all planned Health Care Assistant strikes in the Northwest, West and South regions following agreement with the HSE on key issues regarding underpayments and conditions

SIPTU members employed by the FAI have raised serious safety concerns regarding any proposed Nations League match between Ireland and Israel, calling on the organisation to show consistency.

SIPTU representatives have committed to saving the high-quality employment provided by Glen Dimplex at its manufacturing plant in Newry following a proposed 51 redundancies in the facility.

SIPTU members employed by Caredoc have voted to accept a pay proposal in a ballot counted which brings to an end a pay dispute involving support staff employed by the out of hours GP service.

SIPTU representatives will meet with the management of the KOSTAL manufacturing plant to minimise any compulsory redundancies arising from the company’s decision to move production overseas.

SIPTU has called on the Government to ensure that all workers in low paid industries benefit from a new floor on annual salaries for holders of non-EEA employment permits

SIPTU has today condemned the Government’s newly published Family Reunification policy, calling it a direct attack on workers’ rights and the dignity of essential workers.

SIPTU and INMO members employed at Caredoc facilities have announced their intention to commence strike action effective from December 18th.

SIPTU members employed at Carroll’s Cuisine in Tullamore, County Offaly, will undertake two additional 12-hour work stoppages on Friday (21st November) and Saturday (22nd November).

We will continue our campaign to conclude the unfinished business of Connolly and Larkin, as right was, is and will always be on our side and the side of all working people.

SIPTU General Secretary Elect, John King, has called for “a renewal of trade union activism” and urged Union’s members to recapture the hearts and minds of working people

SIPTU has called the publication of the Government’s National Action Plan on Collective Bargaining a “potential game-changer” provided that it is implemented fully and robustly.

SIPTU has released findings from a new snapshot survey of transport workers which reports an increase in incidents of antisocial and abusive behaviour across the public transport network.

SIPTU has rejected FAI managements proposals to make 60 staff redundant, describing the plan as ill-informed and a devastating blow to grassroots football across the country.

Community organisations and workers have announced a major public meeting to discuss the threat to vital services across the county, under the banner Together, We Are Community.

SIPTU members employed by the FAI will not engage with a management forum due to a failure to respect their right to trade union representation.

SIPTU representatives have welcomed the announcement of the implementation date of the pay agreement benefiting over 30,000 Early Years professionals. Read more here.

SIPTU has called on the Government to make a transformational change to the Early Years sector and introduce free secondary education for all.

SIPTU Deputy General Secretary Greg Ennis, whose Union represents almost 90,000 workers has said that a proposed increase to the minimum wage is “another slap in the face to low paid workers”.

This stance must now be matched by others. In particular our Government, which should lead a ‘coalition of the wililng’ in pushing for the EU to severe all economic, cultural and sporting links with Israel.

SIPTU members in the National Ambulance Service are to ballot for industrial action, up to and including strike action, in a dispute concerning attempts to outsource inter-hospital transfers.

SIPTU has written to three Government Ministers calling for their urgent intervention to ensure the reappointment under warranty of a Labour Court Deputy Chairman.

SIPTU representatives have called out the Government for ‘bottling’ the challenge to improve Ireland’s economic productivity in its new Competitiveness Action Plan

SIPTU has expressed outrage at the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) over threatened redundancies at the sporting body, which have been announced without consultation with staff.

SIPTU members working at Clare County Council will begin industrial action from Monday, August 25th, over management’s failure to comply with agreed national dispute resolution procedures.

SIPTU members in the FAI have raised serious concerns over threats to the game at grassroots level ahead of a meeting of the FAI Board next week.