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Applicants are invited to submit proposals to fulfill the contract for Network Manager of the Trade Union Skillnet. The Contract will be awarded to an individual or organisation on a contract for services/ consultancy basis. The contract will be on a flexible...
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SIPTU has called on retailer Penneys to show fairness to workers following the confirmation that it has awarded a 2% pay increase to most management grades. SIPTU Organiser, Graham Macken, said: “The decision to pay this increase to management grades...
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Dublin City Council has announced a packed programme of events to celebrate this year’s Dublin: One City One Book initiative. James Plunkett’s Strumpet City, this year’s choice, also commemorates the centenary of the 1913 Dublin Lockout....
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This year Frances O’Grady became the first female General Secretary of the British Trade Union Congress. The daughter of an Irish-born mother and second-generation Irish father, she has fond memories of summers spent with relations in the Cabra area of...
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Renowned human rights activist and writer, Noam Chomsky discussed their 161 day sit-in with the former Vita Cortex workers in Cork on Thursday (4th April). During the ninety minute meeting at the Riverside Hotel the workers including SIPTU shop stewards,...
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The body of the mineworker killed in an underground rockfall on Thursday (4th April) in the Lisheen Mine, Co. Tipperary, will be repatriated to his native Philippines this week. The body of Mario Francis (49) was finally recovered on Saturday night. Prior...
