The timing of the TEEU strike is interesting. It is not just about pay (a 4.9% increase recommended by the Labour Court almost five years ago as opposed to the 10% cut employers are threatening to introduce unilaterally), it is about defending the Registered Employment Agreement shot down last year by the Supreme Court. The […]
TEEU members vote overwhelmingly for national strike in electrical contracting industry February 7th, 2014 Members of the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union have voted by 94 per cent in favour of industrial action to protect pay rates and working conditions in the electrical contracting industry. The ballot followed a decision by the Electrical Contractors Association, the largest […]
Harry Owens explains background to the Fund Raiser at the Teachers’ Club in Parnell Square on Friday, March 7th at 8.30 pm This is a fundraiser which began last year, when we started our second level students’ essay competition to write on the Irish and the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39. […]
Speech by Jack O’Connor, General President, SIPTU At the Larkin Commemoration Glasnevin Cemetery Sunday, 2nd February, 2014 Comrades and Friends we are assembled here to commemorate the man who brought the ‘new unionism’ to Ireland, who organised low paid workers previously denied the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining by replacing the […]
Thank you for the honour of the penultimate Noble Call of the season. I’ve seen the Risen People three times now in the Abbey and on each occasion the cast have brought even more energy and panache to the performance. I don’t know what they are taking but it should be bottled and sold in […]
Spirit of Mother Jones festival 2014. The 2014 Spirit of Mother Jones festival/ summer school will be held in Cork city from Tuesday 29th July until Friday 1st August 2014. The event is designed to commemorate trade union activist, Mary Harris, better known as Mother Jones, who was born in Cork in 1837, it […]
John Geary – Professor of Industrial Relations and Human Resources at UCD Opinion (Irish Times 21/0114) While unions often have to struggle for recognition, their role has contemporary social value Last Saturday marked the centenary of the ending of the 1913 Great Dublin Lockout. An important subtext of the centenary celebrations has been […]
Jim Larkin Commemoration Sunday, February 2nd, 2014, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin 11 am to 12 noon Last year a commemoration was held at the graveside of Jim Larkin in Glasnevin Cemetery for the first time in 15 years to mark the beginning of the 1913 Lockout Centenary. This year’s commemoration is to revive this honourable tradition […]
Owen Boss of ANU Productions has sent us this obituary of his Great Grand Father P T Daly from the Irish Press. Daly died on November 20th, 1943 so presumably the cutting is from Monday, November 22nd, 1943. Big Jim Larkin is the figure on the right at the bottom right of the picture. […]
Irish Times Report by Frank McNally of the Abbey’s Risen People performance in Wheatfield Prison January 14th, 2014