In this issue:
New deal for SIPTU bus drivers and public
SIPTU President welcomes new legislation on collective bargaining
March in support of Dunnes Stores workers
Zero-hour contracts
Health workers rally for pay restoration
Health Pay Conference
YES Equality video
BNM unions support decision by ESB to continue to use peat to fuel power stations
Major investment in Bausch and Lomb plant in Waterford
SIPTU book launch - A City in Civil War: Dublin 1921-1924
Workers Rights Centre
James Connolly Commemoration
SIPTU supports protest by former Ulster Bank workers
SIPTU West Cork District Council says ‘Yes’ to Equality
Workers call on UCC President to intervene in Tyndall National Institute dispute
Bob Crow 'Seat'
8th Annual George Brown Commemoration Weekend
Yes to Equality
Summer School on the Arts and Human Rights 2015
Sinn Féin and Labour candidates for Carlow Kilkenny By Election on 22nd May
Bus deal protects workers and users
Global Labour Column
Public spending should be prioritised over tax cuts
Roger Casement's legacy
Mother Jones Festival 2015
Young Workers Network
Fairshop
Docklands Book Sale
SIPTU Members Home Insurance
SIPTU Travel Insurance
Get up to 80% off* Car Insurance
taxback.com - 10% Discount
SIPTU Basic English Scheme
Larkin Credit Union
Fair Hotel
Supporting Quality
Fair Hotel
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SIPTU members in Dublin Bus during strike at Harristown, west Dublin on Friday, 1st May.


New deal for SIPTU bus drivers and public

A 48-hour work stoppage by SIPTU drivers in Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann, scheduled to begin on Friday (15th May), has been deferred following agreement between union representatives, management and Department of Transport officials.The agreement was reached at talks facilitated by the Labour Relations Commission (LRC), which concluded in the early hours of Thursday, 14th May.

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SIPTU President welcomes new legislation on collective bargaining
Draft legislation on collective bargaining, published by the Government on Friday, 8th May, has been welcomed by SIPTU President, Jack O’Connor, as “an important and long awaited development”.
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March in support of Dunnes Stores workers
SIPTU members are to support a protest march in support of the Dunnes Stores workers' struggle for decent jobs on Saturday, 6th June.

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Zero-hour contracts
SIPTU Shop Steward and Care Worker Liz Cloherty discussed with Liberty Online the impact of zero-hour Contracts on worker and the workers they care for.


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Health workers rally for pay restoration
Members of the SIPTU Health Division called on the Government to honour its commitment to restore their pay in line with national agreements at a rally on Thursday, 30th April, outside the Department of Health, Dublin 2.
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Health Pay Conference
SIPTU Shop Steward and activist Catherine Krauss told delegates at a special SIPTU Health pay conference her story about organising to win and the power of the Union.


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YES Equality video


Workers and students join forces to say YES to Equality at Liberty Hall on Friday, 8th May
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BNM unions support decision by ESB to continue to use peat to fuel power stations

The Bord na Móna (BNM) Group of Unions has stated its support for an ESB decision to maintain a supply agreement with the company for peat to fuel its power stations in Shannonbridge, County Offaly, and Lough Ree, County Longford, after 2019.  

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Major investment in Bausch and Lomb plant in Waterford
A €75 million investment programme in the Bausch and Lomb production plant in Waterford has been supported by SIPTU members.
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SIPTU book launch - A City in Civil War: Dublin 1921-1924

SIPTU President, Jack O Connor (left), Sabina Higgins, wife of President, Michael D. Higgins and author Padraig Yeates read through A City in Civil War: Dublin 1921-1924 at the SIPTU book launch by Padraig Yeates in Liberty Hall, Dublin on Tuesday (12th May). (Photo: Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
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Workers Rights Centre
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James Connolly Commemoration
Speech by SIPTU President, Jack O'Connor at the James Connolly Commemoration in Arbour Hill on Sunday, 10th May

We are assembled here to mark the 99th anniversary of the execution of James Connolly, leader of the Irish Citizen Army and acting General Secretary of the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union who, alone among the signatories to the 1916 Proclamation, approached the rebellion from an international socialist perspective.  
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SIPTU supports protest by former Ulster Bank workers

Former Ulster Bank workers have staged a series of protests at Ulster Bank Head Quarters, Georges Quay, Dublin 2 and other branches of the bank to highlight the non-implementation of a Labour Court recommendation in relation to their redundancy terms (Photo: Paddy Cole)
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SIPTU West Cork District Council says ‘Yes’ to Equality

The union’s ‘Yes Equality’ campaign for marriage equality was endorsed by the SIPTU West Cork District Council at a meeting in the Parkway Hotel, Dunmanway, County Cork, on Tuesday, 21st April.

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Workers call on UCC President to intervene in Tyndall National Institute dispute
Workers at the Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork (UCC), have called on the UCC President, Michael Murphy, to intervene in their dispute over pay inequality.


UCC Branch Secretary, Eoin Sheehan and SIPTU colleague picketing at Tyndall during April (Photo: IFUT)
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Bob Crow 'Seat'

(L-R) Members of Unite, Yvonne Harvey and Carol O'Brien alongside SIPTU's Noirin Greene and  Mags O'Brien at the unveiling of a memorial seat to the late RMT General Secretary, Bob Crow at the annual Red Flag Festival Crossakiel, Co. Meath on Sunday, 3rd May.
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8th Annual George Brown Commemoration Weekend
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Yes to Equality
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Summer School on the Arts and Human Rights 2015
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Sinn Féin and Labour candidates for Carlow Kilkenny By Election on 22nd May


Kathleen Funchion
is the Sinn Féin candidate. She is 33 years old and has two young sons. Kathleen was elected to Kilkenny Borough Council in 2009. Kathleen is a workers rights advocate with SIPTU. READ MORE.













Willie Quinn is the Labour Party candidate. He has been a county councillor since 2007. He is married with two grown up children. From Borris, County Carlow, Willie has been active in his local GAA club and the community games. READ MORE.


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Bus deal protects workers and users
The public support shown for striking Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann drivers over the May Bank holiday provided the basis for the agreement that was delivered after marathon talks at the Labour Relations Commission on Thursday (14th May).

The support illustrated the growing awareness among the public of the threat privatisation presents to the provision of high quality services and the common good.

At the centre of the dispute are plans by the National Transport Authority (NTA) to put out to tender 10% of Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann routes. The intent was to proceed with this tendering process without agreement with the workers’ unions. The manner in which the NTA had sought to conduct the tendering process would have undermined conditions of employment throughout the sector as well and spark a race to the bottom in service provision.
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ECONOMY
 
Alexis Stenfors
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Global Labour Column

In this week’s article, Alexis Stenfors focuses on the dynamics of the ‘Swedish model’ in 2015. Stenfors argues that today we are slowly witnessing the deconstruction of the old ‘Swedish model’ and a new element appears “to have cemented the belief that Sweden truly has changed: the rise of the Sweden Democrats.”   

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Public spending should be prioritised over tax cuts

By Jack O'Connor

Our public infrastructure has been severely damaged by six years of one-sided austerity. Approximately €30 billion has been taken out of the State budget in the effort to cut the gap between revenue and spending. This was implemented on the basis that for every euro by which tax was increased, public spending was cut by two.

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Roger Casement's legacy

A debate on the role of solidarity, 100 years after his Putumayo (Colombia) report

On Tuesday 28th April a public meeting organised by the Dublin-based solidarity with Colombia initiative ‘Grupo Raices (Grúpa Fréamhacha)’ was held in the Pearse Centre on the legacy of Roger Casement and the internationalist dimension of his work in South America. Better known for his denunciation of the atrocities committed in Congo by the Belgian administration, Casement also spent time in the Amazon, in the Putumayo region, shared between Peru, Colombia and Brazil, where he denounced the slavery and appalling mistreatment of the native population by the rubber barons.  

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Mother Jones Festival 2015
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Young Workers Network
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Fairshop
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Docklands Book Sale
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SIPTU Travel Insurance
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SIPTU Basic English Scheme

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
New leisure facilities across Belfast

Dear Editor,

Belfast City Council is poised to invest £105 million in new leisure facilities across Belfast including a new £20 million facility in Andersonstown and a new £10 million facility in Twinbrook.  

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Dunnes Stores

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Dunnes Stores management should be aware that customers (and I am one of them) who are in the store on a daily basis, are extremely unhappy with the attitude of Dunnes Stores’ head office management, particularly in not recognising trade unions and in refusing any discussions with their work force.

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