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Irish workers are facing an ongoing onslaught on their lives and livelihoods. The cost of living is spiraling, wages are stagnating, and essential services are crumbling under a rampant neoliberal agenda. The government parties recently voted to block a People Before Profit bill on Trade Union Recognition rights. The legislation
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As public sector workers take to the picket lines today, Olcán Shaw explains how Stormont has failed them and why they are right to take matters into their own hands. “Even if it were fully functioning, our Executive does not have the resources to tackle this problem.” On 25 April
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Iceland workers are fighting back after being shorted wages they are owed. An occupation at the Talbot Street store has now entered its second month. Bernard Mulvany reports. There were rumours and speculation that things were not well in the Irish division of supermarket chain Iceland for a while. Then
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As calls come for unions to shake off passivity in the the face of recent workers’ struggle, one touted alternative is to break away to form more left-wing red unions. As part of our Power in a Union series, Eddie Conlon argues that while this desire is at times
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In first of a new series, Power in a Union, Eddie Conlon explores the nature of trade union leadership and how socialists in unions should relate to it. The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated the brutality of the capitalist system. Across the globe employers have shown complete disregard for workers’
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In the last few months a wave of rank-and-file teacher strikes has swept the US. Rebel spoke with Dana Blanchard—a former elementary school teacher and union organiser in California for almost fifteen years, who reported on the strikes for Socialist Worker (US)—about this industrial action, and