by | Aug 4, 2024 | Health, The Sunday Read
The poor working conditions of workers in the platform-based ‘gig’ economy have received considerable media attention in recent years. Yielding to the pressure from gig workers, trade unions and civil society, the European Council adopted in March 2024 a directive to...
by | Aug 1, 2024 | SIPTU Bulletin
Unity among workers is essential to progress in our workplaces and society. It underpins all we do as trade unionists, our work is based on building collective power and the greatest threat to that is division. Over recent years, changes in Irish society, both...
by | Aug 1, 2024 | Latest News, Latest News Home, SIPTU Bulletin
SIPTU has agreed a new three-year pay deal with the Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI), the national trade association for the motor industry, which secures a 21% increase in wages for craft workers employed across the sector over the next three years. SIPTU...
by | Aug 1, 2024 | SIPTU Bulletin
SIPTU has written to the management of the Stryker plant in Carrigtwohill, County Cork, highlighting to it a call by the Taoiseach, Simon Harris, for the company to ‘take seriously’ statutory agencies recommendations for it to engage in collective bargaining with its...
by | Aug 1, 2024 | SIPTU Bulletin
Staff at the National Advocacy Service for People with Disabilities (NAS) are to ballot on proposals that emerged following talks between their SIPTU representatives and management. The protracted negotiations concluded in late July, following weeks of strike action...
