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Ireland North: District council workers vote to fight attacks on pay and conditions

November 23, 2020 Militant Left (CWI Ireland) reporters

Members of the SIPTU, NIPSA, Unite and GMB trade unions at Newry, Mourne and Down District Council, in Northern Ireland, are preparing for battle. The council have full authority over the pay and terms and […]

Ireland North

Ireland North: Efforts to counter Covid pandemic undermined by profit motive

October 13, 2020 Councillor Donal O'Cofaigh, Militant Left (CWI Ireland)

When the Covid-19 virus first broke in Northern Ireland, workers were once again told that ‘we are all in this together’. It is no more true today than during the 2008 Bankers’ Crisis where capitalist […]

Ireland North

Ireland North: Health and social care workers organise in fight for 15% pay increase

August 29, 2020 Maurice Pollock, Militant Left (CWI Ireland)

Northern Ireland’s largest trade union, NIPSA, is seeking a poverty busting pay increase of £3k or 15%, whichever is highest, for each of its health service members.  NIPSA will feed its position into the health […]

Ireland North

Ireland North: Union democracy under attack from right wing in NIPSA

July 1, 2020 Tanya Killen, NIPSA activist, and Militant Left (CWI Ireland) member

The Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (NIPSA) is the largest trade union in the North of Ireland, did have a strong reputation as a democratic union but the recent actions of NIPSA ruling body, the […]

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Stormont Assembly ministers fail care home workers and residents exposed to covid-19

May 21, 2020 Councillor Donal O’Cofaigh, Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, and CWI supporter

It was always unavoidable that mistakes would be made during the handling of this pandemic. No public health threat on this scale has existed in any developed economy for many decades – and given that […]

Coronavirus

Workers mobilise over covid-19 threat, as Northern Ireland Executive divides

April 1, 2020 CWI Reporter, Belfast

The Covid-19 pandemic is everywhere exposing the dirty underbelly of modern capitalism. In  Northern Ireland, decades of attacks by Tory and New Labour governments in Westminster, and from local parties, on NHS services, have left […]

Coronavirus

Coronavirus: Belfast City council workers put at risk

March 21, 2020 Unite the trade union shop steward, Belfast City council

Many frontline local authority workers, including in Belfast, Northern Ireland, will be asked to maintain essential services throughout the coronavirus crisis. In doing so, they need to remember their first priority is their own survival […]

Ireland North

Ireland North: A wave of private and public sector strikes

March 2, 2020 Interview with Nipsa public sector union deputy general secretary Carmel Gates (in a personal capacity)

Northern Ireland’s government was suspended between 2017 and 2020 after the sectarian parties refused to reach a power-sharing agreement following the ‘cash for ash’ scandal. Now a strike wave has forced them and the bosses […]

Ireland North

Ireland North: Seeds for future growth sown by anti-austerity, labour and trade union candidate

December 16, 2019 CWI Ireland Reporters

Caroline Wheeler, a prominent anti-cuts activist and trade unionist, was the only candidate standing on a genuine cross-community, labour and trade union platform in the recent Westminster election in Northern Ireland, in the Fermanagh and […]

Ireland North

Nationalisation only way to safeguard jobs and skills at Wrightbus, Ballymena

October 2, 2019 CWI Reporter, N Ireland

Wrightbus is one of the last remaining bus manufacturers in the UK and produced the Routemaster, also known as the ‘Boris bus’ (when Boris Johnson was mayor of London), for the London Transport Authority. The […]

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