by | Aug 10, 2024 | SIPTU Bulletin
President of Ireland Michael D Higgins and has wife Sabina Higgins gave a warm and comradely welcome to representatives of SIPTU and the wider trade union movement at a special garden party held in Áras an Uachtaráin, on 30th June. In a rousing speech, President...
by | Aug 6, 2024 | SIPTU Bulletin
A new documentary, supported by SIPTU, on Ireland’s forgotten housing rebellion of the 1970s, will be shown at the Irish Film Institute (IFI) in Dublin on Tuesday, 6th August at 6.30 pm. “The Rent Strike” is a powerful reminder of the impact that collective action can...
by | Aug 6, 2024 | SIPTU Bulletin
SIPTU launched a new Gender Inclusive Language Toolkit developed by the Union’s National Equality Committee, during Pride week in June. The Equality Committee (pictured above) comprises the Union’s Honorary President, Mary O’Sullivan, Honorary Vice President, Alan...
by | Aug 1, 2024 | SIPTU Bulletin
SIPTU has written to the management of the Stryker plant in Carrigtwohill, County Cork, highlighting to it a call by the Taoiseach, Simon Harris, for the company to ‘take seriously’ statutory agencies recommendations for it to engage in collective bargaining with its...
by | Jul 14, 2024 | Latest News, The Sunday Read
Forty-five feet long; 30 panels; miles of thread; yards of material; 250 adult and school student volunteers. The 1913 Lock-out Tapestry was unveiled by President Michael D Higgins in Liberty Hall. It was described by him as “…an imaginative work of art that...
