Section 39 workers ballot for strike over inaction on pay 

by | Feb 18, 2025 | Health, Latest News Home, Public Sector, SIPTU Bulletin

Unions representing staff in Section 39 community and voluntary organisations have been invited to attend talks at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) with Government representatives on Monday 3rd March. This comes in the face of an ongoing SIPTU Health Division...

Building union strength at Stewarts Care: A Shop Steward’s Perspective

by | Feb 18, 2025 | Latest News Home, SIPTU Bulletin

At Stewarts Care, a voluntary organisation providing community-based support for individuals with intellectual disabilities, SIPTU’s presence is flourishing thanks to dedicated Shop Stewards like Bernard Kessie. Bernard, a Day Services Support Worker, has been with...

BNM Recycling sale is an act of economic vandalism says SIPTU

by | Feb 10, 2025 | Latest News, Latest News Home

SIPTU has demanded a halt to the sale of Bord na Móna (BNM) Recycling and an investigation into the attempt to privatise part of a profitable public company in a manner which runs counter to economic and environmental best practice. SIPTU Divisional Organiser, Adrian...

Disability care workers’ pay left short

by | Feb 8, 2025 | Health, Intellectual Disability Sector, Latest News, Latest News Home

SIPTU has condemned the failure of publicly funded disability providers to increase pay, in line with National Minimum Wage (NMW) increases, for workers in disability services who carry out sleepover shifts.  This failure is leaving frontline disability workers out of...

SIPTU conference told we need an economy for workers not billionaires 

by | Feb 7, 2025 | Latest News, Latest News Home

An economy which works for workers rather than billionaires must be built in Ireland, SIPTU Deputy General Secretary, Greg Ennis, told delegates attending the Union’s Services Division Conference in Galway.  Calling for Government action on providing workers in...

SIPTU conference told unions must help build left alternative to the Government

by | Feb 6, 2025 | Latest News, Latest News Home

Trade unions must work with left-wing parties to ensure that the electorate has a credible alternative to the ‘most conservative Government in living memory’, the SIPTU Services Divisional Organiser, Adrian Kane, told his members’ conference in Galway. Addressing more...