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Athy: May Day Festival 2010
Date: Mon, 2010-04-12 00:08
This is the first May Day festival in living memory in the welcoming and historic town of Athy, Co. Kildare. It is taking place at a time of great uncertainty within our country and where a biased media whips up anti-trade union sentiment almost on a daily basis.
Strikes in Spanish Railways
Date: Sun, 2010-04-11 20:05
On 31 March 2010, workers in the Spanish public railway companies Renfe-Operadora (public transport operator) and ADIF (infrastructure administrator) carried out a 24 hour strike.The strike was organised by the Federal Railway Union of the Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT), a radical anarchist influenced union.
Impact CEC rejects Public Sector Agreement
Date: Fri, 2010-04-09 13:00
In a major setback for the government the executive of Impact, the country’s largest public sector union has rejected the deal which was negotiated last week.
O'Reilly owned Providence Resources drills for oil off Dalkey
Date: Fri, 2010-04-09 10:51
Providence Resources the energy exploration company owned by the multi millionare O'Reilly family has announced that it is to start drilling for oil only 10km to sea from the city of Dublin. If it does hit oil then like all the other energy exploration companies it will not have to pay one cent in royalities thanks to the Great Oil & Gas Giveaway deal created by Minister Ray Burke (subsequently jailed for corruption) and Bertie Ahern among others. The O'Reilly family also own a huge percentage of the Irish media, the same media that has failed to cover this Great Oil & Gas Giveaway and that in the case of the Sunday Independant in particular has actively attacked the few journalists like Fintan O'Toole that have dared to speak out.
Public Service 'deal' under huge pressure. Vote at SIPTU executive crucial
Date: Fri, 2010-04-09 10:50
Following the vote by the Central Executive Committee of the country's largest public sector union, IMPACT, that they cannot recommend acceptance of the public sector deal in the forthcoming ballot of members, the deal is under huge pressure. IMPACT's outgoing general secretary Peter McLoone has been one of the principal advocates of the deal and the failure of his union's executive to back the deal will have serious ramifications not alone within IMPACT but in other public sector unions as well.
MANDATE members at Connolly Shoes Dun Laoghaire on strike
Date: Fri, 2010-04-09 10:14
For the second time in six months, workers at Connolly Shoes Dun Laoghaire Co. Dublin, members of the Mandate trade union, have taken to the picket line. The strike began on Tuesday 6th April following the dismissal of two workers.
The dispute has its origin in attempts by management last September to introduce short-time working.
The workers on strike are getting great support and solidarity from members of the public. The leaflet being handed out by the strikers reads as follows:
Dublin Rally in memory of Toyosi Shittabey (15) murdered on Good Friday
Date: Thu, 2010-04-08 12:08
A rally will taken place in Dublin, Saturday 10th April at 14.00 in memory of of Toyosi Shittabey (15) who was stabbed in an attack at Tyrrelstown, north-west Dublin on Good Friday (April 2nd 2010). It will be followed by a march to the Dail and has been called by the Toyosi Memorial Committee.
Leadership comes close to losing 2nd PSA ballot at INTO conference
Date: Wed, 2010-04-07 15:32
INTO Conference has again had a narrow vote in relation to the Public Sector deal. After another lively and angry debate, Delegates voted by 306 votes to 248 against a section of a motion which would have had the effect of postponing the ballot on the deal until the full details of any revised teachers contract were made available.
Report from a WSM member at the INTO Congress
Date: Wed, 2010-04-07 15:13
In what is being described by RTE as a blow to the leadership, delegates at the INTO annual Congress in Galway today (Tuesday) passed a motion which declared that the Public Sector Agreement 2010 -2014 is contrary to INTO policy. After a lively debate, it was agreed to endorse the union leadership's decision to put the deal to a ballot of the membership but the section of the motion which called for a recommendation that members reject the deal in that ballot was defeated by just 4 votes - 308 to 304.
Captain Jack White on the Easter rising
Date: Tue, 2010-04-06 16:18
These opinions and reactions are just a small sample of what is out there. This Easter Week, we should look at the event not just as a week long insurrection, but as an event that would ricochet on through the troubles that followed and continue to spark debate long after the last bullets whizzed through the Dublin sky.