Local political leaders are held responsible for worst waiting lists in the UK and failure to deliver needed reform
Crisis in Northern Ireland health and social care must be addressed through investment and NHS pay equalisation
July 10th: Kevin McAdam, Unite Regional Officer responded to a study of the challenges facing Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care system conducted by the Nuffield Trust:
“We note with interest the very detailed report from Nuffield. Once again we have evidence of how our lack of government due to protracted political failure is damaging our people’s health. Continue reading
July 3rd: Responding to today’s announcement that the 2019 Living Wage has been calculated as €12.30 per hour – a 40 cent increase – trade union Unite said the increased highlights what Senior Officer Brendan Ogle termed the “poverty gap” between low pay and high rents. Mr Ogle made his comments while attending ICTU’s Biennial Delegate Conference, where he moved the union’s motion on housing policy.
July 3rd: Moving Motion 36 at the ICTU Biennial Delegate Conference this afternoon, Unite Senior Officer Brendan Ogle said that the trade union movement – which represents 800,000 working people North and South – must campaign vigorously for measures to resolve the housing emergency which has left over 10,000 people officially homeless in the Republic. Referring to what he termed “tax haven, unequal Ireland 2019”, Mr Ogle said:
July 2nd: Seconding Motion 12 on precarious work during this afternoon’s debate on Employment Rights at the ICTU Biennial Delegate Conference, Unite Regional Officer for Construction Tom Fitzgerald said that, while the transient nature of construction work means that the whole sector can be characterised as precarious, “The worst expression of precariousness in the sector is forced bogus self-employment – where workers are forced to operate self-employed, when they are clearly workers and employees. We know that this impacts on a raft of workers’ legislative rights, the application of collective agreements, the application of sectoral employment orders and similar.
Protest at National Children’s Hospital hears it’s time for state to use purchasing power in battle against bogus self-employment
