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Congress says plan to force pension trustees to obtain qualifications a 'ploy to disguise industry failure'

by | May 16, 2024 | Archives, NewsArchive, NewsArchive2016

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has condemned proposals from the ‘pensions’ industry’ that would force scheme trustees to obtain professional qualifications in order to continue in their role. Congress pensions’ expert Fergus Whelan said the...

TUS Network Manager Position

by | May 16, 2024 | Archives, NewsArchive, NewsArchive2016

TUS is seeking to recruit a Network Manager to assist us on delivering our training programme for 2016. The Network Manager will report to the TUS Steering Committee, made up of training representatives of participating trade unions, and will be supported...

NRA Model for Irish Water would lead to privatisation of water services

by | May 16, 2024 | Archives, NewsArchive, NewsArchive2016

A National Roads Authority (NRA) type model for the provision of water services and infrastructural development would inevitably lead to increased outsourcing and hasten the privatisation of the water services infrastructure, according to the Secretary of the...

SIPTU and President Higgins welcome home James Connolly’s Green Flag of Ireland

by | May 16, 2024 | Archives, NewsArchive, NewsArchive2016

SIPTU representatives and President Michael D Higgins welcomed back to Dublin for the first time in 100 years, the Green Flag of Ireland that was raised above Liberty Hall in the run up to the Easter Rising, at a ceremony at Áras an...

Speech by President Michael D. Higgins at a Symposium entitled “Remembering 1916” in the Mansion House, Dublin on Monday, 28th March, 2016

by | May 16, 2024 | Archives, NewsArchive, NewsArchive2016

A Cháirde Gael, Is mór an phléisiúr dom tús a chur leis an gcomhrá seo tráthnóna ar an eachtra ríthábhachtach a bhí in Éirí Amach na Cásca 1916. Tugann sé...