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Postgraduate workers get organised against extreme precarity and low pay

By Daragh King The Postgraduate Workers Organisation (PWO) is the newly formed workers union for postgraduate researchers (PGRs1) in Ireland. The union was formed in early 2023 from the merger of the Postgraduate Workers Alliance of Ireland (PGWAI) and the Postgraduate Collective

Jun 8, 2023

News & Analysis

WRC Debenhams decision explained and what next

By Michael O’Brien This week, the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) communicated its decision to the Mandate Trade Union and the Court-appointed liquidators in a test case taken by former Henry Street branch shop steward Jane Crowe. Disgracefully, the decision was leaked to

May 20, 2023

News & Analysis

Solidarity with striking Iceland workers

By Robert Cosgrave Workers at four Dublin stores of the supermarket chain Iceland, organised in the Independent Workers’ Union (IWU), are due to go out on strike on Friday, 19 May. At the root of this dispute is the decision by the

May 18, 2023

News & Analysis

Fighting cost of living crisis: Mechanical workers vote for strike action

By Matt Waine Mechanical workers in the construction sector have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in search of a cost-of-living wage increase amounting to 12.8%. Members of Unite, employed by two of the largest mechanical contractors in the country, will

Mar 4, 2023

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·The North

North: Solidarity with NHS workers – strike together to save our NHS

For years health and social care workers have been treated with disdain by politicians in Westminster and Stormont. While they were happy to call health and social care workers “heroes” and clap on doorsteps during the pandemic, their actions revealed their real

Dec 12, 2022

Full public ownership of water — Name a date for a referendum

By Mick Barry TD A campaign to “Keep Water Public” was launched by the four trade unions with local authority water worker members (SIPTU, Unite, Connect and Forsa) at the end of October. The campaign is calling on the Government to name

Oct 31, 2022

News & Analysis·Workplace News

Reject the public sector pay (cutting) deal-Organise & mobilise to win a real pay rise

By Mark Johnson At the time of writing the government has negotiated a pay agreement with the ICTU (Irish Congress of Trade Unions) public services committee. The deal is currently with the executives of the respective unions who will recommend their members

Sep 2, 2022

World News

Britain: Amazon workers strike back against measly pay offer

A wave of industrial action, much of it unofficial, is sweeping Amazon fulfilment centres across Britain. Workers at LCY2 centre in Essex staged a sit-down strike over a measly 35p pay rise and this is spreading, with over 100 walking out in

Aug 11, 2022

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Workplace News

Follow the RMT example: Unions must take action to defend living standards

By Mick Barry TD The inflation crisis has sharply posed the question: how can the living standards of working-class people, the vast majority in society, be defended? Public opinion has put the Micheál Martin Government under pressure to deliver cost of living

Jul 20, 2022

World News

Workers’ struggle rises internationally as the cost of living crisis deteriorates

By Dan O’Rourke The cost of living crisis has struck the global working class. The speed and scale of the inflation crisis is almost unprecedented. Not since the 1970s have rising prices escalated this quickly in so many countries all at once.

Jul 19, 2022

trade unions- Page 2

Postgraduate workers get organised against extreme precarity and low pay

WRC Debenhams decision explained and what next

Solidarity with striking Iceland workers

Fighting cost of living crisis: Mechanical workers vote for strike action

North: Solidarity with NHS workers – strike together to save our NHS

Full public ownership of water — Name a date for a referendum

Reject the public sector pay (cutting) deal-Organise & mobilise to win a real pay rise

Britain: Amazon workers strike back against measly pay offer

Follow the RMT example: Unions must take action to defend living standards

Workers’ struggle rises internationally as the cost of living crisis deteriorates

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden