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Largest mobilisation by SIPTU members in a generation underway
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Fórsa members set to strike in over 7000 workplaces [Forsa] 14-10-2026
Live 300,000 workers striking in action over public pay deal [RTE] 14-10-2026
Largest mobilisation by SIPTU members in a generation underway [SIPTU] 14-10-2026
Public-sector strike by more than 300,000 workers set to go ahead [The Irish Times] 13-10-2026
No basis for strike action to be postponed [SIPTU] 13-10-2026
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This month in labour history
3-10-1932 In Belfast, thousands of workers, Catholics and Protestants, strike private companies while more than 30,000 demonstrate in the streets against state exploitation of the unemployed. [more]
5-10-1913 The British TUC decided that it will stop sending money to locked-out Dublin workers, although food shipments will continue. [more]
10-10-1910 Huge torchlight march through Dublin to celebrate release of socialist and trade union leader James Larkin from jail. [more]
18-10-1913 Dora Montefiore arrives in Dublin with members of the Domestic Workers Union, offering places with volunteer foster families for the children of strikers. [more]
24-10-1913 Members of the ITGWU clash with the Ancient Order of Hibernians, who are trying to prevent strikers' children being taken to foster families in England and Belfast. [more]