Category Archives: Press Releases

Registered childminders demand level playing field on staffing ratio rules in Northern Ireland 

Welcome increase in financial support for parents to pay for childcare does nothing for registered childminders Trade union Unite has warned that large numbers of registered childminders have left the sector due to the failure of consecutive Stormont executive’s to … Continue reading

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Unite will make school support staff campaign for a pay and grading review an election issue

Unite leader Sharon Graham visits Northern Ireland school support workers’ picket lines and vows to escalate campaign for improved pay and equality Unite general secretary Sharon Graham committed her union to make an election issue of the campaign of school support workers to secure … Continue reading

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Duggan Brothers’ non-compliance on OPW project raised in Dail

Pension contributions not paid for up to half of workers on taxpayer funded Leeson Lane project Unite writes to OPW Minister O’Donnell seeking audit of Duggan sites The failure by contractor Duggan Brothers to make contributions to the Construction Workers’ … Continue reading

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Northern Ireland school support workers begin strikes over pay and grading

Workers’ presence at Stormont to demand MLAs refuse to support any budget that does not deliver a pay and grading review  After six years of failure to implement the review and a staffing crisis, education workers have had enough Over … Continue reading

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University Hospital Waterford: Support staff take action in pay justice dispute

Dispute centres on HSE failure to upgrade laundry workers, and to recognise long serving support staff Unite accuses HSE of leaving hospital and union in the dark over regrading plans Trade union Unite, which represents support staff at the University … Continue reading

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