Public sector strike – a premature suspension, but the fight isn’t over
Solidarity TD, Ruth Coppinger and Solidarity Councillor, Kate Relihan on the picket lines in Dublin 15.
Courts back scabs in dockers battle
By Stephen BoydOnce again the courts have backed the employers in an industrial dispute. Marine Terminals have been granted an injunction by the High Court against their workforce and the trade union movement to stop what it calls the harassment of staff
Scabs and courts used against striking dockers
“THIS IS an attack on terms and conditions that have been fought for and won over many years and now everything is being taken away at the drop of a hat so that MTL can make more profits”. John Walsh - MTL
An Bord Slash Nua
An Bord Snip Nua, headed by the neo-liberal economist Colm McCarthy, has given the government a vast menu of potential cuts from which to choose for this December’s budget. The target is to cut €5.3 billion a year from public expenditure.
NAMA – the Biggest Rip Off of all
THE GOVERNMENT has finally come out with more details about how its National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) is going to operate. The proposed NAMA will buy, with government bonds, some 10,000 loans (half of which are behind in their payments and
Thomas Cook – A courageous struggle
Trade union movement must act to defend workers’ rights THE SIGNIFICANCE of the Thomas Cook occupation cannot be overstated. At the time of writing the issue of redundancy payments is not resolved, but already the struggle has exposed the pro-big business nature
Thomas Cook Workers Arrested
From Friday, over 40 workers have been occupying the Thomas Cook store on Grafton St., protesting against job losses and claiming for improved redundancies. The workers, all members of the TSSA (Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association) had balloted for strike action due to
Solidarity with the Thomas Cook Occupation
Thomas Cook’s decision to add to the jobs slaughter by closing their shops in Ireland is outrageous. This is a company which is projected to make a profit of £400 million worldwide this year, with over €4 million made in Ireland. Yet
August 1969 – When British troops went in to Northern Ireland
By Peter HaddenAugust 1969 was a turning point in the history of Northern Ireland. It was then that the Labour Government of Harold Wilson took the decision to send troops onto the streets, first of Derry, then of Belfast.
Socialist Party expresses solidarity with Element Six workers
Members of the Socialist Party in Limerick went out to the Element Six plant in Shannon Industrial Estate on 28 July, to express our solidarity with the workers' struggle against the companies job massacre, and terrible redundancy package. Here we reproduce the
Oppose an Bord Snip’s attacks on our living standards
The innocuously named An Bord Snip Nua report which has just been published contains a menu of vicious cutbacks and job losses aimed at working people, the unemployed and their families.