Congratulations to the Green Isle strikers, and especially
Jim Wyse, John Guinan and John Recto who undertook hunger strikes.
After six months on strike and an escalating and ongoing
hunger strike the company was finally forced to a settlement under the
mediation of local TDs, writes Kevin Wingfield

Joint statement on behalf of Green Isle Foods Limited and the TEEU

Séamus Dooley, Irish Secretary of the National Union of Journalists, has reacted to news that Gardai have sought notes from Evening Herald newspaper journalists in relation to the publication of correspondence between former Minister of State Trevor Sargent and An Garda Siochana.

Members of the Civil, Public and Services Union (CPSU) voted 83 per cent to strike in protest at pay cuts

Today a third man joined the hunger strike at Green Isle Foods in Naas, Co Kildare. Father of three, John Recto today joined Green Isle shop steward Jim Wyse and John Guinan on hunger strike to get Green Isle Foods to come to a settlement of the six month old strike.

he UNITE ballot of its near 1000 members at Bank of Scotland (Ireland) / Halifax has resulted in an overwhelming 85 per cent result in favour of taking industrial action.

Today, 27th February, around 1,000 trade unionists, families and supporters of the Green Isle strikers and Jim Wyse and John Guinan, two of the strikers on hunger strike, came out in a show of solidarity in Naas, County Kildare.

Tomorrow afternoon at 1pm, all Department of Social & Family Affairs Local Offices are to be closed once again. However, the previous examples of this occuring have not been reported in the media, despite the widespread disruption and inconvenience caused to the public, writes a civil service worker.

Halifax, Bank of Scotland has stated that they will make 750
bank workers redundant and close it personal banking sector in Ireland. Workers need to get organised to oppose these job losses.

The dispute that began in May 2009 at Marine Terminals Ltd in Dublin port has ended. 11 jobs, out of almost 50 that went out on strike, have been kept in an agreement between the company and the SIPTU union.