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  • In an emergency new powers must be effective, proportionate and fair

    Unite seeks establishment of Emergency Forum comprising government departments, ICTU and employers  Moratorium on residential and commercial rents, ban on evictions, imperative March 19th: Commenting on the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill, trade union Unite – which represents workers in all sectors – outlined four principles which…

  • Brendan Ogle: public housing central to resolving housing emergency

    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.…

  • Unite expresses solidarity with striking nurses and midwives

    Brendan Ogle: dispute symptomatic of wider problem in unequal society January 30th: As members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives’ Organisation take industrial action around the country, Unite has written to the INMO informing them that we have advised our members to follow good trade union practice and not engage in work ordinarily done by…

  • Brendan Ogle: Ideological Budget puts enriching the few above the needs of the many

    Package offers little for working people Unite’s Senior Officer in the Republic of Ireland, Brendan Ogle, has said that Tuesday’s Budget was an “ideologically driven package” which offers little to working people and “further embeds the pattern of public crises to enrich private, vested interests”. Speaking in Dublin, Mr Ogle condemned the continued focus on…

  • Public housing must be centrepiece of Budget 2019

    Unite calls for broadening of tax base, massive investment in public housing October 7th: Unite today issued a Pre-Budget Comment outlining the union’s priorities for Budget 2019.  Pointing out that the Government has not only declined to use all its available fiscal space but also proposes to set aside €500 million this year for a…

  • Unite reveals that 15 Merrion Square was offered for homeless relief three years ago

    Union questions RTE motivation in running non-story January 17th: Trade union Unite today revealed that its building at 15 Merrion Square was offered to help relieve the then developing homelessness emergency three years ago. The building was not considered suitable by the groups in question which include Focus Ireland.  The revelation by Unite comes in…