Workers Rights Rents Are Rising Much Faster Than Wages New figures from Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) show that national average rents for new tenancies were €1,598 per month last September, up 11% on the previous year. Existing tenancies 9 Feb 2024
Workers Rights Pay Deal Does Not Add Up The leaders of the ICTU are saying the pay negotiations are over and they have got as much as they can get from the current process. But it still leaves 5 Feb 2024
Cost Of Living Public Pay Deal Completely Inadequate Public sector workers got an increase of 4% in 2022 when inflation was 7.2%. (Some got an additional 1% which was earmarked for local bargaining to sort out local 11 Jan 2024
Housing 2023: Socialism Is The Answer To A World In Crisis 2023: Socialism is the Answer to a World in Crisis A year ago, we were told that rising prices were a temporary phenomenon. There was no need to worry and 31 Dec 2022
Cost Of Living Ballinasloe Corrib Oil Strike There were six picketers in front of the Corrib Oil petrol station in Ballinasloe. It was a sunny Thursday afternoon just after the darkest night of the year. It was 23 Dec 2022
Housing The RCN Strike Royal College of Nursing is the union for most nurses in the North’s National Health Service. We visited pickets across region on their first of two planned days of 20 Dec 2022
Housing Cost Of Living Coalition Says Get To The Dáil 1.00pm December 17th Send Leo a Christmas Message We Don’t Want a Change of Taoiseach We Need a Change of Government On December 17th, Micheál Martin will hand over the Taoiseach’s 14 Dec 2022
Cost Of Living The NHS Strikes In Belfast People Before Profit visited the Belfast City Hospital and Royal Victoria Hospital as over 2000 workers in the National Health Service are out on a 24-hour strike across 12 Dec 2022
Housing We Don’t Want A Change Of Taoiseach We Need A Change Of Government Cost of Living Coalition says Get to the Dáil 1.00pm December 17th Send Leo a Christmas Message. On December 17th, Micheál Martin will hand over the Taoiseach’s job 9 Dec 2022