SIPTU calls on workers earnings to be protected during meat plant protests

by | Aug 29, 2019 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2019

SIPTU representatives have today written to Meat Industry Ireland, the body which represents processors in the industry, calling on it to ensure that union members do not suffer a financial loss because of ongoing protests at processing plants around the...

SIPTU to release new data on precarious work in Waterford at seminar on Friday

by | Aug 28, 2019 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2019

SIPTU Waterford District Council will release new data showing the extent and impact of the spread of precarious work practices in the county at a seminar in the Tower Hotel, Waterford City on Friday, 30th August. Speakers at the seminar will include Mayor...

SIPTU members in Irish Pride plant in county Wexford vote in favour of strike action

by | Aug 27, 2019 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2019

SIPTU members at the Irish Pride Fine Foods plant in Taghmon, county Wexford, have voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking strike action following a refusal by management to implement a Labour Court recommendation concerning trade union recognition. SIPTU...

ACP, SIPTU and PLE move to establish professional body for Early Childhood Education and Care

by | Aug 26, 2019 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2019

The Association of Childhood Professionals (ACP), SIPTU, and PLÉ, the Irish Association of Academics in Early Childhood Education and Care in Higher Education, have formed a working group to explore the establishment of a professional...

SIPTU Dublin District Council says car park charge would be an unfair tax on workers

by | Aug 22, 2019 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2019

The SIPTU Dublin District Council has said that calls for a charge to be placed on employees’ car parking spaces amount to an attempt to impose a new and unfair tax on workers in the city. SIPTU Dublin District Council Joint Secretary, Brendan Carr,...

SIPTU says school building failures must result in change in public procurement policy

by | Aug 16, 2019 | Archives, PressArchive, PressArchive2019

SIPTU representatives have called for a major reassessment of the procurement and tendering policy for publicly funded building projects following the issues that have emerged in relation to 40 recently built schools. SIPTU Construction Sector Organiser, John...