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Say no to Tesco’s attempts to slash wages by up to 20%
Tesco stores across Ireland will strike from today against 'race to the bottom' wage and conditions changes the company is trying to impose on long term workers.The Tesco’s scheme would impose up to a...
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Hitting Tesco where it hurts: Strike sees sales fall more than 80% leading to...
Tesco agreed Friday to suspend its attempt to impose a worsening of pay and conditions on its long term workers and to return to the Labour Court, leading to the suspension of the strike. Monday’s...
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A great display of solidarity from transport workers as Bus Eireann strikers...
Inter city bus workers in Ireland launched widespread secondary pickets at 4am this morning. Solidarity from transport workers at the other services picketed meant that most of the country ground to a...
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Nurses strike to defend health system & demand pay parity begins
This morning saw pickets being placed on hospitals all over the country as nurses and midwives strike against low pay. Pay now so low relative to rent and house prices that its impossible for many to...
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In defiance of government spin nurses cry Enough is enough
The West’s awake, so too the other provinces, as defiant nurses and midwives take to the picket lines. Buoyed by massive public support, members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO)...
View ArticleThe Dunnes Strike & Managing Change - the two souls of the trade union
For three weeks, in June-July 1995, nearly 6,000 mostly young and part-time workers struck against Ireland's largest private sector employer, the firmly anti-union Dunnes Stores, over Sunday trading,...
View ArticleThe trade unions
The Workers Solidarity Movement position on the trade unions including an anarchist analysis of the unions and what sort of demands anarchists should put forward in the unions. This paper was retired...
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Take Back The Power! - Our message to ICTU's anti-debt marches 9th Feb '13
It is time for every one of us to take responsibility for trying to turn things around. We have to stop referring to ‘the union’ as something outside of ourselves and begin to see that our unions are...
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General strike - Protest or process?
On Merrion square, an evacuation is in progress. Thousands of people scatter in all directions; panic is etched across their faces. To the casual observer, this is a life or death situation. There is...
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The British Miners strike of 1984-85 -Video & Audio from DABF 2014
At this session at the Dublin anarchist bookfair Dave Douglass talked about his experiences of 1984 - the year the British mines almost defeated Thatcher. "That fight in 84-85 involved the whole...
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