SIPTU condemns release of video footage of Limerick bus incident

by | Jul 15, 2024 | Transport, Energy, Aviation and Construction

SIPTU has called for a full investigation into how footage of an incident last Friday where a female bus driver and member of the Union was shot with an airgun while working in the Limerick area has managed to be widely distributed on social media. SIPTU Transport,...

Urgent action on transport safety needed after shooting

by | Jul 13, 2024 | Latest News, Transport, Energy, Aviation and Construction

SIPTU representatives have called for urgent action on measures to combat anti-social behaviour on our public transport network following the shooting with an airgun of a female Bus Éireann driver and SIPTU member in her cab in Limerick earlier on Friday. SIPTU...

SIPTU welcomes the success of Tara Mines campaign to link Jobseeker’s Benefit to previous pay

by | Jul 11, 2024 | Latest News, Transport, Energy, Aviation and Construction

SIPTU representatives have welcomed the partial success of its Tara Mines campaign in the form of new legislation which was passed in the Dáil this week which links Jobseeker’s Benefit to a worker’s previous earnings, paying them 60% of their previous gross weekly...

Demand for Minister to discuss threatened privatisation of Bord na Mona Recycling 

by | Jul 8, 2024 | SIPTU Bulletin, Transport, Energy, Aviation and Construction

SIPTU has strongly criticised the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan, for failing, to date, to meet with Union representatives to discuss the threatened privatisation of Bord na Mona Recycling, which they say will be detrimental to...

Sky Handling Partner meets with SIPTU at WRC to discuss union recognition

by | Jun 25, 2024 | Latest News, Latest News Home, SIPTU Bulletin, Transport, Energy, Aviation and Construction

The management of Sky Handling Partner and SIPTU representatives attended a Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) conciliation conference on Monday 17th June, to discuss a dispute resulting from a refusal by the company to engage in collective bargaining with the...

Transport workers to delay strike to allow space for pay offer

by | Feb 6, 2024 | General News, Latest News, Transport, Energy, Aviation and Construction

In absence of improved pay offer, bus and rail workers will take a three-day strike action at the end of the month Public transport workers in Northern Ireland have deferred strike action to give political leaders at Stormont space to make an improved pay offer....