by | Dec 5, 2024 | SIPTU Bulletin
The SIPTU Education Sector has a number of priorities it will be pursuing with the next Government, whatever its make-up. These are: – Close the €307 million per annum gap in core funding in the education sector and ensuring that government-controlled pay awards...
by | Dec 3, 2024 | Latest News, Latest News Home, SIPTU Bulletin
SIPTU is to begin a process of consultation with members in Section 39 Organisations concerning industrial action over the issue of Government inaction in relation to a longstanding pay claim in the sector. SIPTU Sector Organiser, Damian Ginley, said: “Despite several...
by | Nov 27, 2024 | SIPTU Bulletin
The long-running dispute concerning pay for Section 39 and other voluntary sector workers came under the spotlight in the last days of the election after an encounter between a SIPTU member and Taoiseach Simon Harris in Kanturk, County Cork on 22nd November. The...
by | Nov 27, 2024 | SIPTU Bulletin
The SIPTU Private Sector made five specific policy demands of political candidates in the run up the General Election, dealing with areas including the need for a transport police service, redundancy improvements, re-municipalisation of domestic waste services and...
by | Nov 27, 2024 | SIPTU Bulletin
The SIPTU-backed ICTU-organised Rally for Unity and Hope! brought together hundreds of trade union and anti-racism activists in a call for solidarity among workers in the face of activity by racists and far-right politicians at the Larkin Statue on O’Connell Street in...
by | Nov 27, 2024 | SIPTU Bulletin
The terms of a new Construction Sectoral Employment Order (SEO) were signed into law by the Minister of State for Business, Employment, and Retail on 7th November and will come into force on 1st August 2025. The new SEO, which supersedes the previous SEO of 2023, sets...
