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Home2020August

Month: August 2020

Health

Health and social care workers in NIPSA show the way as they organise to win a 15 percent pay uplift

August 26, 2020 Maurice Pollock

Northern Ireland’s largest trade union, NIPSA, is seeking a poverty busting pay increase of £3k or 15%, whichever is highest, for each of its health service members.  NIPSA will feed its position into the health […]

Ireland-South

Picket Line Report: Instant Upright Blackmails Strikers

August 20, 2020 Billy Flynn

After sending dismissal notices to seven employees who are currently on strike, Instant Upright, have done an about face and offered to withdraw the dismissals. Disgracefully, this is only on condition that if the workers […]

Education

Northern Ireland Assembly Executive forced into schools exams retreat 

August 17, 2020 Maurice Pollock

Sometimes the political representatives of the capitalist class, such as the Assembly, overstep the mark in a clumsy and stupid manner that is so obviously unjust that their actions threaten not only to fully reveal […]

Education

Letter of protest submitted to CEA

August 16, 2020 Cllr Donal O'Cofaigh

Council for the Curriculum, Examinations & Assessment 29 Clarendon Road, Clarendon Dock Belfast BT1 3BG Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to formally protest the approach that you have taken in regard to the assignment of grades […]

Ireland-North

Statement on proposed extradition of Liam Campbell

August 13, 2020 Cllr Donal O'Cofaigh

In recent months, sharp debate was sparked in Fermanagh and Omagh District Council around controversial court action to extradite the well-known Republican Liam Campbell, to Lithuania. The hearings are being held in the Dublin courts, […]

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