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national / workers issues / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 30, 2010 - 16:02 by Róisín Ní Maoileoin
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The Government have negotiated a tentative agreement with the public sector unions. Let us have a look at what the union representatives agreed to: 1. No restoration of pay cuts 2. Longer hours for the same wages 3. 7-day work weeks resulting in no overtime 4. Redeployment of workers at Government's discretion 5. Staff reduction 6. Outsourcing of public sector jobs at Government discretion ... read full story / add a comment
national / workers issues / news report Friday March 12, 2010 - 01:10 by Paula Geraghty
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Video of taxi drivers outside the Taxi regulator's office at the end of the occupation. A number of taxi drivers are interviewed including the 71 year old who describes how he was assaulted. Filmed tuesday 9th March. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / workers issues / feature Thursday December 03, 2009 - 17:40 by Andrew
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The cancellation of today's strike is a blow to the developing movement against the cuts on the scale of the cancellation of the March 30th strike at the start of the year. The so called compromise ICTU have been negotiating for is a further blow, it seems designed to drive a wedge between workers and fails to answer the main problem public sector workers have, the inability to take further cuts. But the strike that did happen on 24th November has brought 250,000 workers into their first experience of the power we collectively hold and points towards an alternative ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / workers issues / event notice Wednesday December 02, 2009 - 23:29 by Eugene Mc Cartan
Thursday 10 December, 7:30 p.m. Public meeting The budget: A response from the left ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / workers issues / event notice Monday November 23, 2009 - 15:03 by centre for public-cultures
Invitation-All Welcome: ‘Baby, it’s cold outside’: the Humanities and the Post- Credit Crunch Economy. As part of its on-going commitment to the project of ‘Enabling Dissent: the Creation of a Civil Society’, The Centre for Public Culture Studies, IADT, is hosting a special event on the 2nd of December 2009. Date: Wednesday, the 2nd of December, 6.30 to 8.30 pm, in a019, Atrium, at IADT. To book a place: email paula.gilligan@iadt.ie. To email questions for the panel: email cormac.deane@iadt.ie ... read full story / add a comment
national / workers issues / news report Monday November 23, 2009 - 11:23 by Alan MacSimóin
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Working people hit the streets in huge numbers on November 6th. The protests showed, once again, that there is a willingness to resist the government’s attacks on living standards. Most observers put the total number who walked out of work to take part in the eight protests at around 100,000. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / workers issues / news report Saturday November 14, 2009 - 08:08 by Michael Gallagher
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Public Service Strike 24th November Friday, 13 November 2009 Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland, Irish Federation of University Teachers, Irish National Teachers’ Organisation and Teachers Union of Ireland Up to 65,000 teachers, lecturers to take industrial action ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / workers issues / news report Friday October 16, 2009 - 16:14 by Jack Carrigan
STRIKING workers at Coca-Cola HBC Ireland let bosses know they are not giving up this week. Around 700 protestors marched from Liberty Hall to the company’s HQ on Baggot St. on Wednesday, 14 October. The march was organised by SIPTU and supported by trade unionists, left groups, and the Workers Solidarity Movement (WSM). ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / workers issues / event notice Monday October 12, 2009 - 20:58 by Paul Kinsella
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To all supporters/contacts, Many of you will be aware of this already, but please pass it on to all you know, so as to get the biggest crowd possible on Wednesday. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / workers issues / news report Monday October 05, 2009 - 16:37 by Dermo
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A crowd of about 100 people gathered to march down towards the gate of Marine Terminals Ltd. In anticipation of the march by the strikers and their supporters, the company had closed the gates. The march happened on the same day that polls were open for the Lisbon treaty, and a number of speakers at the gate made the point that this was the type of Europe we were getting thanks to Lisbon. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / workers issues / press release Wednesday September 23, 2009 - 14:51 by Darragh O'Connor
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30th Septmeber, 1pm, Parnell Square, Dublin - Thousands of Community workers, activists and ordinary people will protest against the current round of cuts and those proposed in McCarthy's "Bord Snip Nua" report. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / workers issues / event notice Tuesday September 15, 2009 - 18:32 by pat c
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Striking workers from Coca Cola, Green Isle Foods and Dublin Port to join TUF protest outside Leinster House . Coca Cola, Green Isle Food and Marine Terminals strikers are to be among the contingents of workers at the Trade Union Federation (SIPTU & NEETU) protest outside Leinster House on Wednesday, September 16th at 1pm. The workers at Coca Cola HBC Ireland have been on strike for four weeks and have been sacked while out on strike. The Green Isle Food workers have been out for three weeks and the Marine Terminals workers have been on strike for ten weeks. In all these cases strike breakers have been brought in to do their work and court injunctions sought to minimise the effect of pickets. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / workers issues / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 02, 2009 - 18:32 by Henry Silke
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Introduction Is the spectre of mass unemployment a permanent feature in post-boom Ireland? Ireland’s economic boom was predicated on a policy of low tax entry to the European free market as well as an unsustainable housing boom. The Irish state’s response to the global crisis seems to be deflationary policies in a ‘race to the bottom’ between peripheral and semi-peripheral economies. The weakness of indigenous Irish capitalism and the living costs in debt ridden Ireland do not leave much room for growth in private sector employment. The private sector has never been able to provide sustainable full employment in the history of the state. This article explores this thesis and maintains that workers should not depend on the private sector and its political servants to provide decent employment for all. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / workers issues / news report Wednesday September 02, 2009 - 15:32 by Alan MacSimóin
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Thomas Cooke workers refused to go quietly when they were tossed onto the dole. Cooks had made £400m profit in 2008 and their boss, Manny Fontela-Novoa, took home €7 million. This was not a failing business. ... read full story / add a comment
national / workers issues / opinion/analysis Tuesday August 25, 2009 - 21:29 by Gregor Kerr
An interview with a Thomas Cook worker on the recent occupation of the Dublin office. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / workers issues / news report Tuesday August 25, 2009 - 16:45 by Gregor Kerr
4 comments (last - wednesday august 26, 2009 - 16:26) 28 images
Several hundred protestors chanting ‘Scabs out. Dockers In’ engaged in a mass trespass on the premises of Marine Terminals Ltd. in Dublin’s docklands yesterday morning (24th August). ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / workers issues / news report Monday August 24, 2009 - 12:58 by Andrew
4 comments (last - tuesday august 25, 2009 - 14:03) 4 images 1 video file
The dispute at MTL is escalating with hundreds of people taking part in demonstrations organised by the Port Workers Support Group. SIPTU members at the MTL depot in Dublin Port have been on strike since the beginning of July, resisting forced redundancies and pay cuts. The company shipped in scabs from the North and Britain on day one to steal the dockers’ jobs, and also got a High Court injunction preventing effective picketing. Below are updates coming in from this mornings actions, sent via Twitter by WSM members who are present. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / workers issues / event notice Friday August 21, 2009 - 17:05 by social welfare defence
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Hundreds of thousands have found themselves made redundant due to the current economic crisis. However the state with its deflationary policies and cost cutting measures have already begun attacks on unemployed workers. An bord snip nua has proposed numerous attacks on welfare, and the media has begun the softening up process to prepare for the attacks. Unemployed workers need to prepare a defence to the proposed attacks. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / workers issues / press release Friday August 14, 2009 - 10:32 by Darren C
Sixteen workers at a Co-op Superstore in New Square, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork are holding a sit-in protest as a result of the company announcing redundancies without discussions with their union. The company, which is partly owned by Dairygold and their shareholders, have also announced the closure of their Patrick Street store in Fermoy, Co. Cork with the loss of eight jobs. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / workers issues / news report Monday August 10, 2009 - 23:24 by Michael Gallagher
13 comments (last - friday august 14, 2009 - 12:04) 18 images 1 video file
A large crowd of 200-300, made up mainly of families and workers from North and South city dockland communities, showed their support for the sriking dockers today in Dublin. Marching from the East Wall/North Wall and Ringsend/Irishtown, the meeting point for the supporters was the Point Depot Bridge from where they marched united to the gates of the Marine Terminal Limited. ... read full story / add a comment |
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