Solidarity, Author at Solidarity (Ireland)

Joe Higgins MEP welcomes European Parliament’s rejection of SWIFT agreement

I welcome the defeat of the SWIFT agreement in the European Parliament. This proposal is a crude attempt to use the threat of terrorism to increase surveillance of people across Europe. It represents an attack on civil liberties, giving US agencies access

Feb 12, 2010

Workplace News

Halifax Axe 750 Jobs – Fightback Needed

Halifax informed 750 workers over a conference call that they will be joining the dole queues. Profit and self-preservation come at all costs for the senior bankers even at the cost of jobs and services. Halifax came to Ireland to make profits.

Feb 12, 2010

The North

Northern Ireland: Deal won’t deliver for working class

On 5 February the DUP and Sinn Fein agreed a deal on policing, justice and parades. The deal was announced in triumph as a “historic breakthrough” by Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness sitting along side Gordon Brown and Brian Cowen.

Feb 8, 2010

The North

Hughes Christensen: No more job losses in East Belfast

The political parties in the Assembly Executive were today accused of “gross negligence for their complete lack of action to save jobs at Hughes Christensen factory” in East Belfast.

Feb 2, 2010

Workplace News

Hughes Christensen: No more job losses in East Belfast

The political parties in the Assembly Executive were today accused of “gross negligence for their complete lack of action to save jobs at Hughes Christensen factory” in East Belfast.

Feb 2, 2010

Uncategorized

Management company debacle

AS EVERY day goes by, tens of thousands of householders continue to be the victim of unregulated management companies.

Feb 2, 2010

Uncategorized

One parent family cuts

MARY HANAFIN, the Minster for Social and Family Affairs, has raised a proposal to attack the One Parent Family Payment (OFP). She is arguing for a change in the allowance that’s paid to lone parents by stopping the payment once a child

Feb 2, 2010

Equality

Clerical abuse – prosecutions needed

FOUR CATHOLIC Bishops have resigned in the wake of the Murphy Report into clerical sex abuse of children and the cover up of that abuse in the Dublin Diocese.

Feb 2, 2010

Workplace News

Hermitage attack pay and conditions

A generalised assault is underway against the pay and conditions of workers in the private health sector. In the likes of the Bon Secours and the Mater Private the employers have sought to impliment paycuts in line with the governement attacks on

Jan 28, 2010

Workplace News

Public sector workers on the breadline

Ann Orr spoke to Laura who is married to a public sector worker who prior to the recent pay cuts earned €28,000 a year. They are both in their twenties and have a son who is nearly two years old.

Jan 26, 2010

Solidarity

Joe Higgins MEP welcomes European Parliament’s rejection of SWIFT agreement

Halifax Axe 750 Jobs – Fightback Needed

Northern Ireland: Deal won’t deliver for working class

Hughes Christensen: No more job losses in East Belfast

Hughes Christensen: No more job losses in East Belfast

Management company debacle

One parent family cuts

Clerical abuse – prosecutions needed

Hermitage attack pay and conditions

Public sector workers on the breadline

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