by | Jan 19, 2025 | Education, History, Latest News, Latest News Home, The Sunday Read
The Great Dublin Lockout remains the seminal event in the history of the Irish working class. That epic struggle also ranks as one of the great battles in the history of the workers’ movement internationally. Until recently, it was viewed as some kind of curtain...
by | Jan 17, 2025 | Latest News, Latest News Home, Press Releases
SIPTU’s Health Division is to begin a ballot of up to 5,000 members working in Section 39 Organisations for strike action due to the failure of the Government to honour a pay agreement struck at the Workplace Relations Commission in October 2023. SIPTU Sector...
by | Jan 15, 2025 | Latest News, Latest News Home, Transport Sector, Transport, Energy, Aviation and Construction
SIPTU representatives have welcomed the inclusion in the Programme for Government of a commitment to establish a new transport police service with powers of arrest and under the control of the National Transport Authority, which is in line with the Union’s Travel Safe...
by | Jan 14, 2025 | Latest News, Latest News Home, Press Releases
SIPTU representatives have called on the Government to honour a commitment to raise the Minimum Annual Remuneration thresholds required to obtain an employment permit for Health Care Assistants (HCAs) and Home Support Workers or face a worsening crisis in these...
by | Jan 10, 2025 | Latest News, Latest News Home, Press Releases
SIPTU members employed by Bord na Móna Recycling will meet later this month to consider industrial action, up to and including a strike, to safeguard the future of the country’s last publicly-owned domestic waste collection service. SIPTU Transport, Energy, Aviation...