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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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Ireland was one of the most unequal societies in Europe when the pandemic began. A year later, Brian O’Boyle highlights how the Irish government’s response has widened those inequalities, and it is only through workers organising that these trends can be reversed. The crisis associated with Covid 19
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Forty years ago, the PAYE revolts rocked Ireland. Paul O’Neill tells the story of this oft-forgotten period when Irish workers fought for a more progressive taxation system, while the establishment struggled to reign in the movement. From 1979 to 1983 Ireland witnessed a number of militant strikes, including
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Continuing Rebel’s Power in a Union series, James O’Toole explores the history of workers’ occupations both as a radical and effective tactic to win individual disputes but also as laying the basis for a different type of society – one based on direct democracy. “Occupy!” the shout went out,