Childcare workers Archives - Solidarity (Ireland)

End the model of state-subsidised, private profit childcare

By Caitríona Ní Chatháin Disgracefully, the Irish State currently spends a pitiful 0.1% of its GDP on childcare. Ireland is also an outlier among wealthier countries because childcare is exclusively private and largely for-profit with state subsidies. In spite of these subsidies

Jun 12, 2022

Covid-19 Pandemic

Covid-19: Childcare facilities close with workers left in distress

Across the state, workers are being thrown into turmoil by the Coronavirus emergency as companies announce closures and layoffs. For more than 25,000 childcare workers, there is huge uncertainty as all childcare facilities across the state have been closed. This was obviously

Mar 17, 2020

Childcare workers

End the model of state-subsidised, private profit childcare

Covid-19: Childcare facilities close with workers left in distress

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden