In the 1960s and 1970s Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito commissioned a series of major monuments by leading artists to commemorate the country’s struggle against fascism in the Second World War. Young Pioneers visited them as part of their political education, so did millions of Yugoslavs and tourists. Now Yugoslavia no longer exists but the […]
Romania – Talks on National Agreement breaks down but Collective Bargaining Rights remain in place Talks on a new Four Year National Collective agreement in Romania are deadlocked over proposed increases in the Minimum Wage. Employers object that it is too high. What else is new? But for Irish observers the really interesting thing is […]
Old 1913 Ballad found. The words of this song were given to Brendan Byrne of the Labour History Society at a SIPTU May Day seminar in Athy by Mary Hoare Walsh. It was composed by local boatmen to commemorate events during the Lockout and came from a local boatman, Thomas McCormack of Allenwood South. He […]
Keith Ewing, Professor of Public Law at King’s College, London, says Ireland is in breach of its obligations on facilitating workers who want collective bargaining under International Labour Organisation conventions – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7a2lQzJDWM See Irish Congress of Trade Union link below for interview with Esther Lynch, Head of Legal and Social Affairs, ICTU
Almost 1,000 years after the Battle of Clontarf we are still paying the price for opting out of the Nordic way of doing things. Not just when it comes to oil exploration but union recognition. The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions has used the threat of sympathetic strikes and a boycott of its products to […]
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