SIPTU and Connect Trade Union local authority members working under the management of Irish Water have today picPatKav(Friday, 20th November) overwhelmingly voted for industrial action to prevent the privatisation of the public water service. Last month, Irish Water said that it intended reduce the local authority workforce in the company by up to 1500 by…
The European Trade Union Confederation, representing 90 trade union organisations in 39 countries, said it stood with the people of Paris at this terrible, frightening time. Luca Visentini, General Secretary of the ETUC, said “We are with the families and loved ones of the victims, with the workers dealing with these murderous attacks, and with…
The General Secretary of the Connect Trade Union, Eamon Devoy, has warned that, “in the absence of any satisfactory Government response to our repeated representations for the removal of student service charges on apprentices we will be undertaking industrial action across the manufacturing sector, beginning with a national one day strike on Monday, November 2nd.…
The Connect Trade Union is in the process of serving notice of a one day national strike for November 2nd on manufacturing plants across the country where employers are refusing to pay student service charges for apprentices attending Institutes of Technology. These charge range from €913 to €2,750. The vast majority of apprentices only attend…
The Connect Trade Union Joins the Trade Union Right2Water campaign for a constitutional referendum to retain water in public ownership The Connect Trade Union has decided to join the Right2Water Campaign and is calling on the Government to abolish water charges with immediate effect. The Connect Trade Union is the country’s largest craft union. Connect…
Ireland’s largest craft union, the Connect Trade Union has signed a landmark global federation agreement with the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices (UA), which represents 370,000 craft workers in the United States, Canada and Australia. The signing ceremony was hosted at the Irish Embassy in Washington today (January 27th – 2015). “The UA and…
Congress General Secretary David Begg has described as “profoundly anti-democratic” a proposed trade deal between the United States and Europe and warned it would make it almost impossible for Governments to introduce any progressive legislation in the future. Addressing delegates at the Connect Trade Union’s Biennial Conference, in Kilkenny, Mr Begg said the proposed Transatlantic…