Workers Rights

Workers Rights

James Connolly’s Vision Never Realised

At the heart of the 1916 rising was a Marxist revolutionary socialist, James Connolly. This inconvenient truth was largely hidden from the Irish population for many decades. Nationalist Ireland preferred

12 May 2020

Workers Rights

Care Home Workers Must Receive Full Sick Pay

People Before Profit Cllr Shaun Harkin said “It is a scandal that front line workers in many private care homes don’t receive sick pay from their employer. They are

5 May 2020

Workers Rights

May Day: International Workersday

May Day was first celebrated in Dublin in 1890 when a demonstration was organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions on the first Sunday in May.  One of the

1 May 2020

Health

Workers In Saggart Hold Protest As Employers Stealthily Move Company During Lockdown

People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny joins protest in support of workers “Some firms are trying to use the Covid-19 public health emergency to deprive workers of their rights” Workers

30 Apr 2020

Health

People Before Profit Supports the Debenhams Workers and Calls for Government Intervention

Richard Boyd Barrett TD said: “The treatment of the Debenhams workers is utterly unacceptable. The company is still operating in this country north and south and in the UK but

29 Apr 2020

Workers Rights

Workers Rights and Social Justice Week

Programme for the “Workers Rights and Social Justice Week”:  https://www.derrystrabane.com/workersrights People Before Profit Cllr Shaun Harkin said, “Working with the trade union movement we proposed the

28 Apr 2020

Workers Rights

Make Noise On May Day

* Make Noise On May Day * Support Our Frontline Workers * Demand a Living Wage of €15 an hour * Demand the Right to Join a Union From Derry to Dublin make some

27 Apr 2020

Health

Minute’s silence to pay tribute to front line workers killed by Covid-19

People Before Profit Cllr Shaun Harkin said, “We are encouraging everyone to participate in a minute of silence at 11am on Tuesday for workers killed by the coronavirus. April 28th

27 Apr 2020

Workers Rights

Pay Tribute to Essential Workers on May 1st

People Before Profit Cllr Shaun Harkin said, “The efforts of NHS and all frontline workers have been nothing short of heroic during the Covid-19 crisis. But they’re still being

23 Apr 2020