SIPTU demands removal of barriers to recruitment and retention of mental health

by | Jun 28, 2016 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2016

SIPTU has called for the ending of a lower paid new entrants’ grade and the return of allowances for mental health nurses in order to end a crisis in staff recruitment and retention in the service SIPTU Health Division Organiser, Paul Bell, said:...

SIPTU members in National Ambulance Service vote overwhelmingly for industrial action

by | Jun 27, 2016 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2016

SIPTU members in the National Ambulance Service (NAS) have voted by 92% to 8% to implement industrial action in a dispute related to their conditions of employment in a ballot counted this morning (Monday, 27th June) in Liberty Hall, Dublin 1. SIPTU Health...

SIPTU has called on the Government to immediately begin negotiations with the UK aimed at stabilising the trade in manufactured goods between the two states in the aftermath of the British vote to leave the EU.

by | Jun 24, 2016 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2016

SIPTU Manufacturing Division Organiser, Gerry McCormack said: “Currently around 16% of goods manufactured in the Republic of Ireland are exported to the UK. This figure rises significantly in the agriculture, food and drink sectors.“We had...

SIPTU President Jack O’Connor says Brexit is the result of years of austerity

by | Jun 24, 2016 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2016

SIPTU General President, Jack O Connor, has stated that the victory of the Leave campaign in the British referendum on EU membership results from the implementation of austerity policies that have alienated working people across Europe. O’Connor...

SIPTU President strongly opposed to Government’s budget plan for 2017

by | Jun 22, 2016 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2016

SIPTU General President, Jack O’Connor, has said that the union strongly disagrees with the proposed distribution of available resources in Budget 2017 as outlined in the Government’s Summer Economic Statement as published yesterday (21st...

BNM rail and road transport workers threaten industrial action over pay cuts and outsourcing threat

by | Jun 22, 2016 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2016

SIPTU members in the Bord Na Mona (BNM) transport division have expressed outrage at the company’s plan to unilaterally impose pay cuts of at least 12% in the case of rail workers. The company has also announced that it is in the process of outsourcing its road...