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Ireland Report reveals barriers to trade union access in workplaces [RTÉ] 09-10-2024

Ireland Strike action by engineers at Meta data centre deferred [RTÉ] 07-10-2024

Ireland Work stoppage at Becton Dickinson in Drogheda staged by SIPTU members [Irish Times] 03-10-2024

Ireland Trade union calls for legal right for workers to refuse to assist genocidal regimes [The Journal] 29-09-2024

Ireland National children’s hospital site picketed by Unite members in travel-allowances dispute [Irish Times] 27-09-2024

Ireland Undercover as a hotel cleaner: ‘Lifting the heavy mattress, I cry tears of rage and exhaustion’ [The Guardian] 19-09-2024

Ireland Dublin store worker penalised for union activity is awarded six months’ pay [Irish Times] 10-09-2024

Ireland Support MEBSCA workers strike! [BWI] 08-09-2024

Ireland Plumbers, fitters and welders take strike action [RTÉ] 06-09-2024

Ireland Increased pay rates for work permit holders could lead to inequality and racial tensions, minister told [Irish Times] 02-09-2024


Other news


Ogle loses disability discrimination claim against Unite 2024-10-10 [RTE]

Fórsa members to take part in lunchtime protest today at Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore 2024-10-10 [Forsa]

Brendan Ogle loses disability discrimination claim against trade union Unite following cancer treatment 2024-10-10 [Irish Times]

Israel Trinity lecturer’s union endorses academic boycott of Israel in BDS win 2024-10-09 [Trinity News]

INMO staff set to protest St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny 2024-10-09 [IrelandLive]

Further health union protests over staff shortages 2024-10-09 [RTÉ]

SIPTU members to protest the HSE’s Pay and Numbers Strategy 2024-10-09 [SIPTU]

Report reveals barriers to trade union access in workplaces 2024-10-09 [RTÉ]

Record overcrowding at Cork University Hospital 2024-10-09 [Irish Nurses and Midwives Organization]

Work issues a factor in mental health problems for over one third, survey finds 2024-10-07 [Irish Times]

‘The salary isn’t close to what I’d need for a place of my own’: UCD researchers frustrated by pay 2024-10-07 [Irish Times]

Strike action by engineers at Meta data centre deferred 2024-10-07 [RTÉ]

Plumbers, pipefitters and welders engaging in further strike action 2024-10-07 [RTÉ]

Piggery operator ordered to pay worker nearly €14k 2024-10-07 [RTÉ]

Strike at Meta’s Clonee data center in Ireland deferred, case instead goes to court 2024-10-07 [DCD]

Commitment to end poverty pay by 2026 must be maintained 2024-10-07 [ICTU]

Commitment to end poverty pay by 2026 must be maintained 2024-10-07 [ICTU]

Manager sacked by Bidvest Noonan says false timesheet allegations prevent him finding new work in sector 2024-10-04 [RTÉ]

USA Meta denies it is 'union busting' in engineers dispute 2024-10-04 [RTÉ]

Work stoppage at Becton Dickinson in Drogheda staged by SIPTU members 2024-10-03 [Irish Times]

Housing is the greatest workers' rights issue of this generation 2024-09-30 [Labour]

Trade union calls for legal right for workers to refuse to assist genocidal regimes 2024-09-29 [The Journal]

Country music promoter to appeal WRC ruling on fiddler's employment status 2024-09-28 [RTÉ]

Apprenticeship system reputation threatened by proposed changes, conference hears 2024-09-28 [Irish Times]

INMO announce protest at CUH and balloting on industrial action 2024-09-28 [Echo Live]

FSU calls for 'significant pay increase' for bank staff 2024-09-27 [RTÉ]

National children’s hospital site picketed by Unite members in travel-allowances dispute 2024-09-27 [Irish Times]

Trade Union calls for investigation into death of Irish journalist 2024-09-27 [Morning Star]

Industrial action ballot for health workers as dispute with HSE and Department of Health intensifies 2024-09-27 [Fórsa]

Irish Rail ordered to pay compensation for ageist discrimination 2024-09-26 [RTÉ]

Health unions to ballot staff on industrial action over HSE staffing levels 2024-09-26 [Irish Times]

SIPTU members in BD in Drogheda begin industrial action 2024-09-25 [RTÉ]

Gaza children to get medical treatment here 2024-09-22 [ICTU]

Older workers ‘less likely to have made pension plans’ 2024-09-20 [Irish Times]

Plumbers, pipefitters and welders stage third day of strike action 2024-09-20 [RTÉ]

Undercover as a hotel cleaner: ‘Lifting the heavy mattress, I cry tears of rage and exhaustion’ 2024-09-19 [The Guardian]

Industrial action enters a fifth week at Toome brick plant 2024-09-11 [The Irish News]

Countering racism in the workplace report 2024-09-10 [Irish Congress of Trade Unions]

Former Iceland worker awarded €8,300 for being penalised over her role as shop steward 2024-09-10 [The Journal]

Dublin store worker penalised for union activity is awarded six months’ pay 2024-09-10 [Irish Times]

Support MEBSCA workers strike! 2024-09-08 [BWI]

SIPTU staffer who ‘filled time drinking coffee’ after being left with no work awarded €15,000 by WRC 2024-09-06 [SIPTU]

Plan for FAI staff protest at England game suspended ahead of talks 2024-09-06 [Irish Times]

Plumbers, fitters and welders take strike action 2024-09-06 [RTÉ]

Tax cuts are unwise and unnecessary 2024-09-04 [ICTU]

Increased pay rates for work permit holders could lead to inequality and racial tensions, minister told 2024-09-02 [Irish Times]

Weekly earnings up by 4.2% in 2023 - CSO 2024-09-02 [RTÉ]

Cardinal workers may be offered eight weeks’ redundancy pay 2024-09-01 [Irish Times]

Lockout Series: Recalling the women of 1913 2024-09-01 [SIPTU]

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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]