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In the midst of a worsening cost of living crisis and without direction from a passive union leadership, security officers began to self-organise and build their own grassroots fightback. John Whipple reports on the successes and challenges that have faced Security Officers United since their inception. On Friday 25
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Care workers are essential in our society but they still face austerity implemented, and not been reversed, from the 2008 financial crisis. Bernard Mulvany looks at the history of this ongoing scandal and argues that the unions need to take meaningful strike action to force an unwilling government to restore
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On 16th August 1819 a huge crowd assembled at St Peter’s Field in Manchester, they were seeking the vote. Workers poured out the mills in Manchester and the surrounding areas and formed a peaceful protest, which was met by brutal suppression and force from local yeomanry and militia. Mark
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The RTÉ payments scandal has provoked widespread outrage. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin warns of how the Government could use the opportunity to gut RTÉ, and argues that we need to fight for a proper Public Service Broadcaster worthy of the name. The RTÉ dumpster fire continues to blaze. The spark that
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We have received this statement from ‘a group of Revolutionary Communists’ in China. They are not able to give their names in the present repressive situation in China. We are sharing their statement on the protests in China in full. Solidarity with the mass protests demanding the lifting of lockdown
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With the 2022 FIFA World Cup in full flow, criticism of the Quatari state is now taking a back seat in parts of the media as they try to get on with the football. Kiran Emrich takes aim at the ugly reality of FIFA’s decision to host the world
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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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The government is seeking to raise the state pension age, claiming that the fact that people are living longer is creating a “Pension Time Bomb”. Bríd Smith TD dismantles this claim and argues that the attack on the retirement age is part of the wider attack on all workers. The
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Throughout the pandemic, the establishment have been quick to call frontline health workers “heroes”. Junior doctor Eóin Ó Murchú argues that lip-service is not enough, and COVID has put a spotlight on treatment of health staff in Ireland. The arrival of SARS‐CoV‐2 in Ireland brought the capacity
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With the Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland (ASTI) ballot on equal pay, conditions and Covid measures due to close this Thursday, ASTI member Mark Walshe (personal capacity) calls for an emphatic Yes vote. ASTI members are currently balloting on several issues. Prior to the lockdown in March, ASTI had decided
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Hospitality has long been a highly precarious sector. As part of our Power in a Union series, Unite Hospitality activist Jerry Maguire argues that the pandemic has only worsened the situation, making it more important than ever to unionise. The Hospitality and Tourism sector, employing 60,000 people in Northern
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In recent days, Sadhbh Mac Lochlainn spoke to four women workers at one of the many Debenhams pickets around the country. We mark 150 days of these pickets by publishing their inspiring voices here, followed with a shop stewards’ statement unequivocally rejecting as “pitiful” a deal made between their union