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Gender pay gap at State’s biggest union Siptu widens to almost 14pc

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Gender pay gap at State’s biggest union Siptu widens to almost 14pc [The Irish Independent] 29-11-2025


Trade unions and Government must build on EU's wage directive for a better future for workers [The Irish Examiner] 19-11-2025


Transport workers survey reports increased antisocial behaviour [SIPTU] 10-11-2025


SIPTU members in Carroll's Cuisine to take strike action [RTE] 08-11-2025


Fórsa Youth and TCDSU/AMLCT Joint Conference Held in Arts Block [The University Times] 06-09-2025



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Gender pay gap at State’s biggest union Siptu widens to almost 14pc 2025-11-29 [The Irish Independent]

Carroll’s Cuisine strike action suspended as management agree to talks 2025-11-27 [SIPTU]

Talks due this week at Offaly meat plant after further one-day strike averted 2025-11-24 [Offaly Live]

Moves to protect the integrity of pension auto-enrolment welcome 2025-11-19 [ICTU]

Trade unions and Government must build on EU's wage directive for a better future for workers 2025-11-19 [The Irish Examiner]

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

New housing plan lacks the radical reset needed, says Irish Congress of Trade Unions 2025-11-18 [Irish Congress of Trade Unions]

IFATCA Spotlight Podcast – Ireland 2025-11-17 [IFATCA]

Ordinary workers feel ‘left behind’ after pay hikes for semi-state CEOs, incoming Siptu chief says 2025-11-15 [The Irish Independent]

Moderators in Ireland as Covalen concedes after union action 2025-11-13 [UNI Global Union]

Government's failure to recognize Covid-19 as occupational disease shows lessons from pandemic not being learned 2025-11-13 [ICTU]

Sting in the tail for workers in the social as government buriesbudget benefit cutwelfare bill as 2025-11-13 [ICTU]

Congress welcomes CJHEU recognition that directive on collective bargaining is on sound legal footing 2025-11-10 [ICTU]

Transport workers survey reports increased antisocial behaviour 2025-11-10 [SIPTU]

SIPTU conference in Galway 2025-11-10 [Midwest Radio]

SIPTU members in Carroll's Cuisine to take strike action 2025-11-08 [RTE]

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

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

Health unions trigger warning on HSE staffing citing six thousand vacancies 2025-10-28 [Irish Times]

Trade union group spurns requests to endorse Catherine Connolley for president 2025-10-28 [Irish Times]

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

SIPTU members in Carroll’s Cuisine in Tullamore vote for strike action 2025-10-24 [SIPTU]

Ireland Northern Ireland ‘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]

Ireland Northern Ireland ‘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]

Irelands council presidency must make progress towards collective bargaining 2025-10-23 [ICTU]

MinImum wage workers short-changed EU six hundred by government next year 2025-10-20 [Irish Congress of Trade Unions]

SIPTU slams FAI over youth training scheme closure, confirms meeting with Oireachtas 2025-10-12 [The Irish Mirror]

Collective union action in defence of collegial governance 2025-09-30 [Education International]

Workers must not be place in unconscionable situations of complicity with Israeli genocide 2025-09-16 [Irish Congress of Trade Unions]

School secretary and caretaker strike withdrawn by union 2025-09-07 [RTE]

Fórsa Youth and TCDSU/AMLCT Joint Conference Held in Arts Block 2025-09-06 [The University Times]

School secretaries and caretakers agree to withdraw strike for negotiations 2025-09-06 [Breaking News]

‘Unsustainable’ – teacher unions say schools ‘struggling to operate as normal’ amid secretary and caretaker strike action 2025-09-04 [The Irish Independent]

Government must use budget to reduce reliance on corporation tax 2025-08-31 [Irish Congress of Trade Unions]

School secretaries and caretakers to meet ahead of strike 2025-08-26 [RTE]

Schools issue update for parents and teachers ahead of planned strikes next week 2025-08-23 [Galway Beo]

Thousands of school secretaries, caretakers set for indefinite strike action 2025-08-21 [RTE]

Thousands of school secretaries, caretakers set for indefinite strike action 2025-08-21 [RTE]

Constant changes in Irish second-level education hamper teacher agency 2025-08-19 [Education International]

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

Dale Farm drivers and engineers to strike over pay 2025-08-12 [BBC]

Behind Ireland's 1.4m euro fine for directive delay 2025-08-11 [Irish Congress of Trade Unions]

Trade Union official who died after assault was 'champion of the underdog', funeral hears 2025-08-09 [The Irish Mirror]

Global agreement delivers new CBA between the Communications Workers’ Union and DPD Ireland 2025-08-05 [UNI Global Union]

Leitrim women factory workers welcomed to gathering for National Heritage Week 2025-08-04 [Ireland Live]

Leitrim women factory workers welcomed to gathering for National Heritage Week 2025-08-04 [Ireland Live]

Middle East Statement on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza 2025-07-28 [ICTU]

'Economic vandalism'-Irish Congress of trade unions call on Government to drop VAT cut 2025-07-23 [ICTU]

Independent Workers’ Union welcomes Labour Court recommendation on Abtran 2025-07-23 [Ocean FM]

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This month in labour history

6-11-1913 The military are on standby as hundreds of strikebreakers are shipped into the Port of Dublin. [more]

12-11-1913 James Connolly calls all ITGWU dockers in Dublin out on strike. Larkin, released from prison the following day, disagreess with the move, wanting to keep the dockers as a final reserve. [more]

13-11-1913 Irish syndicalist union leader Jim Larkin is released from prison during the bitter Dublin Lock-out [more]

19-11-1913 The battlelines harden in the Dublin Lockout as James Connolly tells a meeting that ‘any man who means in future to become a member of the Transport Workers Union must be prepared to enrol himself in the Citizen Army.' [more]

28-11-1913 Seafarers Union leader Havelock Wilson negotiates a return to work for his Dublin members, without consulting the ITGWU/ [more]