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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 […]

Ireland-South

Instant Upright workers fired for defending their rights

August 12, 2020 Billy Flynn

The long running dispute between workers and Instant Upright, based in Citywest, has taken a sharp turn with news that the striking workers have been sacked from their jobs. The workers had successfully prevented the […]

Ireland-South

Interview with striking Debenhams worker

July 26, 2020 Interview with striking Debenhams worker

Militant Left spoke to Debenhams worker Pauline about the ongoing industrial action taking place in stores across the country following the company’s decision to pull out of the Republic of Ireland. The workers are now […]

Defeating the far right

Workers unity must become the watch word for every trade union militant

July 1, 2020 Militant Left

The shock of the devastating Covid 19 crisis, and a new phase of economic turbulence has unleashed a wave of dislocation, uncertainty, and desperation across the globe. The impact is compounded by the grind of […]

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