by | Jan 10, 2025 | Latest News, Latest News Home, Press Releases
SIPTU members employed by Bord na Móna Recycling will meet later this month to consider industrial action, up to and including a strike, to safeguard the future of the country’s last publicly-owned domestic waste collection service. SIPTU Transport, Energy, Aviation...
by | Jan 6, 2025 | Latest News, Latest News Home, Press Releases
SIPTU Deputy General Secretary, John King, has called on the incoming Government to honour a commitment, given on a number of occasions to trade unions, to hold a referendum to provide constitutional protection against the future privatisation of public water...
by | Jan 3, 2025 | History
Trade union badges first became commonplace with the rise of the ‘New Unionism’ of the 1890s among the previously unorganised dockers, carters and general workers in Britain and Ireland. In order to ensure union members were given preferential treatment at the dock...
by | Jan 2, 2025 | History
SIPTU was established in 1990 – with the merger of the country’s two largest unions, the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union and the Federated Workers’ Union of Ireland. Both were founded by ‘Big’ Jim Larkin in the early years of the twentieth century. Until...
