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Esri report on poverty trends

Wednesday 08 September 2010, 10am

The ESRI has launched their report on poverty trends 'Monitoring Poverty Trends in Ireland 2004-2007: Key Issues for Children, People of Working Age and Older People'. It shows that social... more

Call for nera funds cut shows 'skewed sense of priorities' - congress

Monday 06 September 2010, 03pm

Congress has said (Sept 01) that a call for a cut in the budget of the National Employment Rights Agency by a Fianna Fail deputy reflected a 'skewed sense of... more

Mandate trade union and congress supports gaza demonstration

Thursday 03 June 2010, 03pm

Mandate Trade Union and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions is supporting a mass demonstration on Saturday June 5, which has been called by the Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign to... more

John douglas calls for a consumer led boycott of israeli goods

Friday 28 May 2010, 12am

Despite losing nine key speakers to the impact of the volcanic ash, the Congress conference on the Middle East went ahead in St Patrick's Hall, Dublin Castle on Friday, 16th... more

Lift the gaza blockade

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 10am

Israel’s three year near-hermetic closure constitutes collective punishment of an occupied civilian population. This is explicitly prohibited under Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, as well as... more

Fourth nestlé india union in recognition and bargaining win

Tuesday 19 January 2010, 11am

  http://cms.iuf.org/?q=node/185 On January 5 the union at Nestlé Pantnagar, the company's largest and newest (2006) plant in the country, signed... more

Tata continues collective punishment of indian tea workers

Tuesday 19 January 2010, 11am

  Nearly one thousand tea workers and their families continue to suffer collective punishment at the hands of India's Tata Group. Workers at the Nowera Nuddy Tea Estate in West Bengal,... more

Colombian oil palm workers under fire

Tuesday 19 January 2010, 11am

  Workers in Colombia are once again victims of armed violence for trying to exercise their right to join and be represented by a trade union. On January 14, armed gunmen... more

Labourstart - haiti: what unions are doing

Tuesday 19 January 2010, 11am

I'll keep this brief and to the point. Unions around the world are raising money and sending volunteers to Haiti.  There's full coverage of all this activity on... more

Got kids... get them this book and get them understanding unions

Tuesday 15 December 2009, 02pm

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type is a delightful children’s book (ages 3 to 7) with a union message. It seems that Farmer Brown has a... more
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