SIPTU supports members protesting outside Hassetts Pharmacy in Wexford

by | Mar 19, 2013 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2013

SIPTU is supporting a protest this morning (Tuesday, 19th March) by workers at Hassetts Pharmacy, 9-11 North Main Street, Wexford, Co. Wexford. This is the third protest this month at pharmacies which are part of the Uniphar Retail Services...

BCD Travel to attend LRC following intervention by Minister

by | Mar 15, 2013 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2013

SIPTU members at BCD Travel in Tralee, county Kerry, have deferred strike action following the company’s decision to attend the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) in an effort to resolve outstanding issues arising from a dispute over the non-payment...

Statement by the National Executive Council of SIPTU on the Labour Relations Commission’s proposals for a Revised Agreement on Pay in the Public Service – 2013 to 2016

by | Mar 14, 2013 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2013

1. The Labour Relations Commission’s proposals for a revised Agreement on pay in the Public Service to extend over the period 2013-2016, are the result of unprecedentedly difficult negotiations. They have emerged in the context of the on-going consequences...

SIPTU condemns call for more evictions

by | Mar 8, 2013 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2013

SIPTU General President Jack O’Connor has described calls for intensifying the rate of evictions as reprehensible and barbaric. He went on to call on the Government “to come up with better solutions to the mortgage crisis than reverting to the tactics of...

SIPTU calls on Irish Hotels Federation to support decent work

by | Mar 8, 2013 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2013

SIPTU has called on the Irish Hotels Federation to accept workers have a right to decent conditions of employment which can only be protected by the reinstatement of the Joint Labour Committee (JLC) for the sector. SIPTU Organiser Denis Hynes said: “Claims by...

Old Darnley Lodge sit-in to end on Friday

by | Mar 7, 2013 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2013

The Old Darnley Lodge workers are ending their sit-in at the hotel in Athboy, Co. Meath, on Friday, 8th March, at 11.30 a.m., following the payment of their redundancy entitlements. Old Darnley Lodge SIPTU Shop Steward, Eileen...