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Hospitals, schools and councils: How threat of industrial action is to ramp up across public sector within weeks 2026-09-19 [The Irish Independent]

Worry for parents as teachers set to strike over public sector pay row 2026-09-19 [Cork Beo]

Fórsa local authority workers to take industrial action 2026-09-19 [RTE]

Primary school teachers and council workers to begin work-to-rule amid public sector pay row 2026-09-19 [The Journal]

Doctors' union members start voting on whether to strike over lack of pay deal 2026-09-15 [The Journal]

Hospital consultants may take to picket line over public pay amid threat of health service chaos 2026-09-15 [The Irish Independent]

SIPTU backs RTÉ staff boycott of Israel fixtures and pledges support to other workers 2026-09-14 [SIPTU]

All SIPTU public sector workers to join HSE staff in strike action as pay row heats up 2026-09-14 [Cork Beo]

SIPTU health workers to take industrial action in 30 hospitals on 30th September 2026-09-11 [SIPTU]

Siptu health workers in 30 hospitals to take industrial action later this month 2026-09-11 [The Journal]

Everything you need to know as Irish healthcare workers set to strike over pay 2026-09-10 [Cork Beo]

First workshop on autonomous vehicles in urban public transport 2026-09-10 [ETF]

Government must back calls for windfall tax on energy profits, says ICTU 2026-09-06 [ICTU]

Members voted for industrial action: what’s next? 2026-09-05 [Forsa]

School secretaries and caretakers’ strike documentary 2026-09-04 [Forsa]

Unions call on government to block central bank renewal of Israeli bonds prospectus 2026-09-03 [ICTU]

ASTI to ballot members on strike action as teachers 'working for less in real terms' 2026-09-01 [The Irish Examiner]

Majority of 75,000 Siptu members in the public service vote for strike action in escalating row over pay 2026-09-01 [The Irish Independent]

Fuel protests inspired public sector workers' vote for strike action - SIPTU 2026-09-01 [Newstalk]

Siptu members in public service vote in favour of strike action over pay 2026-09-01 [The Journal]

Public sector workers’ strike vote is no bluff, union says 2026-09-01 [The Irish Times]

Siptu negotiator says ‘ball is in Government's court’ as unions prepare to announce strike ballot results 2026-08-31 [The Irish Independent]

SIPTU votes for public service strike action over Government failure to enter talks 2026-08-31 [SIPTU]

Public sector faces widespread strikes if new pay deal not agreed 2026-08-31 [The Irish Times]

Fórsa members at Oberstown to escalate strike action 2026-08-25 [RTE]

Staff at Oberstown youth detention campus set to go on 12-hour strike as dispute escalates 2026-08-25 [The Irish Mirror]

Oberstown Youth Detention Centre Staff To Go On 12-Hour Strike 2026-08-25 [Nova News]

Oberstown workers to begin 48-hour strike as dispute over staffing escalates 2026-08-25 [The Journal]

ICTU holds global solidarity school on Wexford with warnings on rise of racist violence and attacks on workers rights worldwide 2026-08-24 [ICTU]

Where oh where is our James Connolly? Inside the new documentary 2026-08-23 [RTE]

Dublin care workers’ strike ends after Labour Court recommends letting pay review proceed 2026-08-21 [The Irish Times]

Higher and Further Education unions raise concerns over refusals of Gazan student visas 2026-08-19 [ICTU]

Fórsa ballots 90,000 public service members for industrial action 2026-08-06 [Forsa]

Siptu members at Ireland’s largest dementia facility agree to WRC meeting, postponing strikes 2026-07-26 [The Journal]

Fórsa Youth Hold Housing Conference at Trinity Amid “Major Public Sector Strike” on the Horizon 2026-07-22 [University Times]

End costly gimmicks and deliver a workers' budget, urges Irish Congress of Trade Unions 2026-07-14 [ICTU]

New pay proposals accepted by Ireland’s ambulance workers after strike 2026-07-18 [The Irish Sun]

Nurses and midwives to vote on strike action in pay dispute 2026-07-16 [People]

Government must press for release of imprisoned Gaza doctor-trade unions 2026-07-14 [ICTU]

Ireland urged to lead EU crackdown on unpaid internships during presidency 2026-07-07 [Extra]

Unions Call For Young Workers To Be Protected Against Unpaid Internships 2026-07-07 [Radio Nova]

ndustrial Relations Executive 2026-07-04 [INMO]

Report on the International Labour Conference 2026 2026-07-04 [ICTU]

Report on the International Labour Conference 2026 2026-07-04 [ICTU]

Unions to prepare industrial action ballots over stalled pay talks 2026-07-04 [RTE]

Unions will demand workers’ rights are linked to public contract tenders 2026-07-02 [SIPTU]

Thousands of workers set to rally in Dublin and Paris for pro-worker procurement reform 2026-06-29 [UNI Global Union]

Ireland's EU Presidency: A Turning Point for Workers’ Rights? 2026-06-28 [Labour]

Remembering Veronica Guerin 2026-06-26 [NUJ]

Perfusionists’ strike to resume next week 2026-06-25 [Irish Medical Times]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

3-09-1913 Thousands attend the funeral of James Nolan, murdered by police, while hundreds of Dublin employers agree not to employ union members. [more]

7-09-1913 James Connolly begins a hunger-strike in protest at his imprisonment during the Dublin Lockout, he was released as a result. [more]

12-09-1913 Birth of Eugene Downing, Irish Communist who fought with the International Brigades in Spain. [more]

13-09-1913 James Connolly is released from prison after a four-day hunger strike during the Dublin Lockout. [more]

18-09-1903 James Connolly emigrates to America, where he will become an organiser for the Industrial Workers of the World before returning to Ireland in 1910. [more]

27-09-1913 The SS Hare sails into Dublin with food supplies for the locked-out workers. It flies the colours of the National Transport Workers Federation. [more]