Category Archives: Press Releases
Valentine’s message to Minister Burke: Show health care assistants some love!
Work permit minimum salary thresholds and family reunification rules must be reformed Unite highlights anomalies which see long-serving HCAs earning less than new entrants Migrant health care assistants (HCAs) held a protest today (Thursday) outside the Department of Enterprise, Trade … Continue reading
Unite challenges communities minister Gordon Lyons on delay in Winter Fuel support
Unite has challenged the assurances offered by communities minister Gordon Lyons that a winter fuel payment of £100 will be made “by the end of March”. The commitment offers little comfort to vulnerable pensioners and carers struggling to heat homes. Continue reading
Northern Ireland SEN schools’ preference for temporary classroom assistants is risking child safety
Candidates holding essential criteria for the post of classroom assistant are being overlooked with positions being filled by unqualified workers on temporary engagement forms Unite has expressed serious concerns about a race-to-the-bottom on classroom assistant positions at special educational needs … Continue reading
Storm Eowyn: Construction employers try to cheat workers out of day’s leave
Unite demands ‘extreme weather’ legislation as workers told to take unpaid day’s leave Employers accused of shifting closure cost onto workers Unite, which represents construction workers throughout Ireland, said today (Sunday) that some construction employers instructed workers to take an … Continue reading
Little for workers in ‘Programme for Business’
Unite slams failure to restate commitments on living wage, sick pay, and water referendum Commenting on the draft programme for government, trade union Unite today (Monday) accused the new coalition of ticking off a shopping list of employer demands while … Continue reading









