Upsurge in strikes Archives

Health Strikes in the North: Defending Workers’ Pay and the NHS

February 15, 2023 Tanya Killen, General Council NIPSA and Branch Secretary (Both personal capacity)

With widespread discontent and anger over pay, safe staffing and mileage reimbursement, health service unions in Northern Ireland – NIPSA and UNISON -commenced industrial action on 5 December 2022. Action initially commenced with ongoing work […]

Upsurge in strikes, and a bosses’ lockout of workers

November 21, 2019 Ciarán McKenna

The year, 2019 has, so far, been marked by a relative resurgence in industrial action by workers in the South of Ireland. In 2018, there were 4,340 strike action days across all sectors of the […]