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Northern Ireland health department flip-flopping on childminding ratios risks child safety, Unite 2026-05-20 [Unite]

Stormont Executive must put protections for workers during extreme weather events in law 2026-04-27 [Unite]

Ulster University to cut up to 450 jobs 2026-04-15 [BBC]

Paid miscarriage leave now a day-one right in Northern Ireland 2026-04-07 [PCS]

William Houston: Contractor fined £110k after falling stone killed man 2026-03-16 [BBC]

Unite to ballot Nelipak workers for strikes in real living wage dispute 2026-03-10 [Unite]

Union to ballot workers over industrial action at Derry medical packaging firm Nelipak 2026-03-10 [The Irish News]

PDA calls on MLAs to support the Good Jobs Bill 2026-03-07 [PDA]

IFJ and NUJ demand accountability over unlawful surveillance by PSNI 2026-02-27 [IFJ]

Thousands of PSNI officers set for £7,500 payout after data breach 2026-02-24 [Emergency Services Times]

Concrete firm fined £160,000 over employee's death 2026-02-19 [BBC]

Guinness workers in Belfast secure pay boost as strike threat ends 2026-02-12 [Unite]

Public sector workers ‘have just days to claim share of £100m compensation’ says union 2026-01-22 [The Irish News]

Staff at Glen Dimplex, Portadown end industrial dispute after vote to accept improved pay offer 2026-01-16 [Unite]

Some NI Water staff on strike over pay 2025-12-31 [BBC]

Workers’ rights are good populism 2025-11-19 [Agenda NI]

Concerns for child safety in Northern Ireland with hundreds of education posts filled without safety checks 2025-11-17 [Unite]

Union to ballot PSNI workers for strike action over data breach 2025-11-04 [BBC]

'Winter of discontent' unless health pay offer improved 2025-10-28 [BBC]

Talks due to resume as health unions move towards strike ballot 2025-10-27 [BBC]

‘Belfast at night isn’t exactly the safest’ – Late night buses could put bar staff in danger, warns hospitality union 2025-10-23 [The Irish News]

‘Belfast at night isn’t exactly the safest’ – Late night buses could put bar staff in danger, warns hospitality union 2025-10-23 [The Irish News]

Response failures highlights need to end NI ambulance staffing crisis 2025-09-23 [Unite the union]

IFJ condemns MI5’s illegal surveillance of journalists 2025-09-18 [IFJ]

Belfast Better Gym and GLL leisure centre workers go on 24-hour strike 2025-08-12 [BBC]

Number of NI Water workers hold strike over pay inequality 2025-06-26 [RTE]

Economy Minister Caoimhe Archibald to address launch of Unite ‘Extreme Weather’ demands at Stormont 2025-06-12 [Unite]

BT plan to close office 'came out of the blue' 2025-05-01 [BBC]

International Workers’ Memorial Day in Northern Ireland: Stormont must protect workers in ‘Extreme Weather’ events 2025-04-28 [Unite]

Equality Commission to publish guidance on Supreme Court ruling 2025-04-26 [BBC]

IFJ nominates surveilled Irish journalists for UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2025-04-17 [IFJ]

Man arrested in Martin O'Hagan investigation 2025-04-05 [NUJ]

Civil service cleaning staff face cuts, union warns 2025-02-27 [BBC]

Education minister hopes to finalise teacher pay deal 'within days' 2025-01-31 [BBC]

Teaching unions suspend industrial action planned for next week 2025-01-12 [Belfast Media]

NI health service set to avoid strikes after deal proves 'massive step forward' 2024-12-20 [Irish Times]

Navantia takeover offers hope for jobs and future of shipbuilding at Harland and Wolff 2024-12-19 [Unite the union]

Woman settles case after Christmas party incident 2024-12-15 [RTÉ]

Northern Ireland Water strike could see thousands cut off 2024-11-28 [Belfast Live]

Health union warns of 'large-scale' industrial action over pay 2024-11-13 [BBC]

All seven Stormont party leaders sign winter fuel payment pledge 2024-10-28 [Unite the union]

Staff say restaurant management took fines from tips 2024-10-24 [BBC]

Spirit workers still waiting for answers about their future 2024-10-22 [Unite]

Seagate engineering specialists vote for representation by Unite 2024-09-26 [Unite]

'Detrimental effect' on children with autism as school strikes set to force more classroom closures, warns charity 2024-08-15 [BelfastLive]

Education Authority workers win pay and grading improvement to end industrial dispute 2024-08-07 [Unite the Union]

NUJ says those intimidating journalists should be prosecuted 2024-08-06 [NUJ]

NUJ says those intimidating journalists should be prosecuted 2024-08-06 [NUJ]

Health staff ‘should get above inflation pay rises’ 2024-07-30 [BBC]

Harland & Wolff: Focus must be on securing a long-term future 2024-07-22 [Unite the union]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

4-05-1926 For the first and so far only time in British history, the TUC calls millions of workers out in a general strike, in support of coal miners. [more]

5-05-1882 Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette and revolutionary socialist, is born. [more]

10-05-1920 Dockers refused to load arms shipments to be used by White armies in Russia. [more]

14-05-1771 Socialist philanthropist Robert Owen is born [more]

30-05-1984 Miners leader Arthur Scargill, along with 81 other pickets, is arrested at the Orgreave coking plant in South Yorkshire. [more]