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Support Education Welfare Officers in their fight for pay parity!

Education Welfare Officers (EWOs) work to make sure children from disadvantaged households or vulnerable backgrounds don’t lose out on getting an education through absenteeism. They also have a particular role in supporting young people coming [...]
Ireland-South

Picket Line Reports: ESB Technicians Strike Inchicore Depot.

Independent Workers’ Union members of the ESB took part in the second of a 24-hour strike on Thursday as part of their battle against outsourcing which the workers see is ‘privatisation by the back door’. [...]
Ireland-North

No more Martin O’Hagans, no more Lyra McKee’s

Unfortunately the approach to the second anniversay of the killing of journalist Lyra McKee was marked by a potentially deadly attack on another journalist. Two masked men jumped photographer Kevin Scott from behind when he [...]
Ireland-South

Debenhams: Gardaí aid strike breaking

In the early hours of this morning, Gardaí at the behest of big business KPMG/Debenhams forcibly removed Ex Debenhams workers and their supporters from the loading bay in Parnell Street. These workers have spent the [...]
Ireland-North

Rioting and escalating tensions in Northern Ireland

Images of young people rioting in Belfast and elsewhere, countered by police using water cannon, conjured up scenes from the period of the ‘Troubles’. From the point of view of international audiences, Northern Ireland appears [...]
Ireland-South

Debenhams- One Year of Struggle

A year ago today, ex-Debenhams workers across Ireland received word via email that they were being made redundant. For an entire year they have been sitting on picket lines and preventing stock being removed from [...]
Covid Pandemic

COVID Unemployment Crisis: Defend PUP Supports for Unemployed Workers

Latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that 571,000 workers in the South, almost 1 in 4, are now unemployed. The main cause of these massive numbers, the highest ever, is the ongoing [...]

Ireland-North

Support Education Welfare Officers in their fight for pay parity!

May 10, 2021 Councillor Donal O'Cofaigh

Education Welfare Officers (EWOs) work to make sure children from disadvantaged households or vulnerable backgrounds don’t lose out on getting [...]
Ireland-South

Picket Line Reports: ESB Technicians Strike Inchicore Depot.

May 1, 2021 Billy Flynn

Independent Workers’ Union members of the ESB took part in the second of a 24-hour strike on Thursday as part [...]
Ireland-North

No more Martin O’Hagans, no more Lyra McKee’s

April 24, 2021 Anton McCabe

Unfortunately the approach to the second anniversay of the killing of journalist Lyra McKee was marked by a potentially deadly [...]

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