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Why Education workers should Vote no to the Public Sector Agreement
Date: Tue, 2010-04-13 11:37
This text is currently being distributed in leaflet form by the Vote No to the Public Sector Agreement campaign within the Irish National Teachers Organisation. As well as arguing why the agreement is bad for education workers in the public sector it also explains why it is also bad for other public sector workers. If you want to distribute the leaflet you'll find a link to a PDF of it at the bottom of the text.
Do you want Geoengineering with your climate change?
Date: Mon, 2010-04-12 16:41
This weeks New Scientist carries an editorial calling for "robust public debate on geoengineering". Geoengineering is the idea that if climate change cannot be avoided through a reduction in carbon emissions its worst effects can be avoided through large-scale engineering of our environment. The failure of the Climate Summit in Copenhagen has seen many scientists look to what is perceived as the only possible alternative.
Report on Memorial Public Rally for Toyosi Shitta-Bey
Date: Mon, 2010-04-12 10:10
Over a 1500 people gathered at the Garden of Remembrance Saturday afternoon in a Rally organised and called by the Socialist party to remember the 15 year old, Toyosi Shitta-Bey who was stabbed to death in Tyrrelstown on good Friday. Today was an important day for people to stand up and show that there are people who say racism and thuggery have no place in the Ireland that we want. It was a day to remember a young inspirational life – this boys death may make us face up to the racism that exists in our society so that we deal with it, and extinguish it.
Athy: May Day Festival 2010
Date: Mon, 2010-04-12 00:08
This is the first May Day festival in living memory in the welcoming and historic town of Athy, Co. Kildare. It is taking place at a time of great uncertainty within our country and where a biased media whips up anti-trade union sentiment almost on a daily basis.
Strikes in Spanish Railways
Date: Sun, 2010-04-11 20:05
On 31 March 2010, workers in the Spanish public railway companies Renfe-Operadora (public transport operator) and ADIF (infrastructure administrator) carried out a 24 hour strike.The strike was organised by the Federal Railway Union of the Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT), a radical anarchist influenced union.
Impact CEC rejects Public Sector Agreement
Date: Fri, 2010-04-09 13:00
In a major setback for the government the executive of Impact, the country’s largest public sector union has rejected the deal which was negotiated last week.
O'Reilly owned Providence Resources drills for oil off Dalkey
Date: Fri, 2010-04-09 10:51
Providence Resources the energy exploration company owned by the multi millionare O'Reilly family has announced that it is to start drilling for oil only 10km to sea from the city of Dublin. If it does hit oil then like all the other energy exploration companies it will not have to pay one cent in royalities thanks to the Great Oil & Gas Giveaway deal created by Minister Ray Burke (subsequently jailed for corruption) and Bertie Ahern among others. The O'Reilly family also own a huge percentage of the Irish media, the same media that has failed to cover this Great Oil & Gas Giveaway and that in the case of the Sunday Independant in particular has actively attacked the few journalists like Fintan O'Toole that have dared to speak out.
Public Service 'deal' under huge pressure. Vote at SIPTU executive crucial
Date: Fri, 2010-04-09 10:50
Following the vote by the Central Executive Committee of the country's largest public sector union, IMPACT, that they cannot recommend acceptance of the public sector deal in the forthcoming ballot of members, the deal is under huge pressure. IMPACT's outgoing general secretary Peter McLoone has been one of the principal advocates of the deal and the failure of his union's executive to back the deal will have serious ramifications not alone within IMPACT but in other public sector unions as well.
MANDATE members at Connolly Shoes Dun Laoghaire on strike
Date: Fri, 2010-04-09 10:14
For the second time in six months, workers at Connolly Shoes Dun Laoghaire Co. Dublin, members of the Mandate trade union, have taken to the picket line. The strike began on Tuesday 6th April following the dismissal of two workers.
The dispute has its origin in attempts by management last September to introduce short-time working.
The workers on strike are getting great support and solidarity from members of the public. The leaflet being handed out by the strikers reads as follows:
Dublin Rally in memory of Toyosi Shittabey (15) murdered on Good Friday
Date: Thu, 2010-04-08 12:08
A rally will taken place in Dublin, Saturday 10th April at 14.00 in memory of of Toyosi Shittabey (15) who was stabbed in an attack at Tyrrelstown, north-west Dublin on Good Friday (April 2nd 2010). It will be followed by a march to the Dail and has been called by the Toyosi Memorial Committee.