Tag Archives: poverty pay
Strike action at Balcas, Enniskillen ends as workforce votes overwhelmingly to accept vastly improved pay offer
Two year pay deal is worth more than one thousand pounds a worker in first year with guaranteed above-inflation pay increase in year two First successful private-sector industrial action in Fermanagh in more than a decade has electrified workers in … Continue reading
Glen Dimplex workforce to escalate industrial action in pursuit of Living Wage
After nearly week of overtime ban, first twenty-four hour strike action set to commence at midnight Monday 29th October Portadown workforce gears itself for battle to end in-work poverty at group which made €38 million profit last year October 25th: … Continue reading
Planned strike action at Dale Farm Ltd postponed as union ballots members on improved management pay offer
Forty-eight hour strike action by maintenance workers was due to start at 6am on Sunday will not now proceed September 7th: Liam Gallagher, speaking for the union’s membership at Dale Farm, confirmed that an initial forty-eight hour strike planned to … Continue reading
Welcome for HSC Board clarification that 1,800 vacancy figure does not include all Health & Social Care staff groups
Admission confirms figure supplied by CEO for the Northern Ireland Health & Social Care Board, Valery Watts, to the Northern Ireland Select Committee was inaccurate Time for a reality check on status of our healthcare system and meaningful negotiations on … Continue reading
Universal Credit causing misery and hardship for families in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland households claiming the new all-in-one benefit, Universal Credit are being plunged into misery and hardship Westminster government must stop the roll out of Universal Credit before even more families are forced into poverty 23rd May: As part of … Continue reading









