Workers Rights Plea To Education Minister To Shut Schools Early And For Longer Repeated Rising transmission rates and growing evidence on role of schools cited Demands that online resources are allocated for vulnerable students and families Following a packed zoom meeting on Wednesday 16 17 Dec 2020
Education Renewed Calls For Schools To Close Earlier And For Longer Rising Covid infections and international evidence supports new policy on schools, says TD People Before Profit TD Bríd Smith has renewed calls for the Government to shut schools earlier for 15 Dec 2020
Health National Schools Closure Highlights Wider Issues On Schools And Covid Concerns expressed that Covid numbers in schools may be underestimated People Before Profit TD Bríd Smith has reiterated concerns around Covid transmission in schools. The TD had called on the 11 Dec 2020
Education Call For Schools To Stay Closed For Extra Period After Christmas Break Call for schools to stay closed for extra period after Christmas break TD says Minister should extend school holidays in line with EU body’s call People Before Profit TD 8 Dec 2020
Education Carlow Students Rally To End Image Based Sexual Abuse Following a leak of hundreds of thousands of sexual based images of women online calls have mounted to ensure that the uploading or sharing of such images will become a 3 Dec 2020
Migrant Rights Macron Introduces New “Charter” Attacking Muslim Community The French President Emmanuel Macron has announced ‘a charter of republican values’ and a wide ranging series of measures directed at France’s Muslim population and given the French Council 20 Nov 2020
Health Education Equality In Time Of Covid-19 People Before Profit Waterford welcomes the recent announcement by Minister Simon Harris, of the additional 14,000 places in Higher Education, as well as his earlier announcement of additional places 6 Nov 2020
Education Waterford And Wexford Etb Is Mistreating Its Employees Says People Before Profit Refusing salaried employees access to their workplace, and then docking their pay, is a disgraceful practice, according to Úna Dunphy of People Before Profit, but that is what the Waterford 2 Nov 2020
Education Teachers For Safe Schools The ASTI are right to ballot for industrial action to force this government to make our schools safe. Up to now if a pupil tested positive for Covid-19 they were 31 Oct 2020