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As public sector pay talks re-start, Owen McCormack gives an account of the disastrous effects of Social Partnership on workers and explains why a return to these kinds of deals will provide no answer to the cost of living crisis. Talks on a new national pay deal for public
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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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A key demand of the Debenhams workers is the implementation of the Duffy-Cahill report. Continuing our Power in a Union series, Diarmuid Ó Seanacháin Dálaigh highlights the important precedent it would set while maintaining that being organised is the best weapon we have. Commissioned in 2016, the Duffy-Cahill
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Over 100 years ago, a small group of workers in Tralee embarked on the heroic Munster Warehouse Strike of 1915-1918. Kieran McNulty argues that this episode contains much by way of inspiration for the struggles of today. There is a long tradition, over the past 100 years, of shop