The Good Jobs Bill is ready.
Now it needs to get through the Executive and onto the Assembly floor.
This Bill will give workers more secure contracts, the right to keep their tips, better protections for parents, and a stronger voice at work.
Working people in Northern Ireland have waited long enough and they deserve better.
So, join us at Stormont this Monday and tell Executive Ministers to move the Good Jobs Bill.
🚨 UPDATE 🚨
SIPTU and UNITE met with the Labour Court today for exploratory talks regarding the ongoing dispute on the non-implementation of an independent report.
The Labour Court requested that the planned 48-hour stoppage on the 19th/20th of May be stood down to allow for further talks.
Representatives of both unions on the Irish Ambulance Representative Council (IARC) agreed to this request on the basis that the talks on offer could be the best opportunity to resolve this long-running dispute.
The work-to-rule remains in place, and the planned 72-hour stoppage starting on the 26th May has not been stood down.
On Wednesday, SIPTU’s Health Division presented the findings of the SIPTU Nursing Home Workers Survey 2025, “Care at the Breaking Point”.
The report, based on the views of over 700 nursing home staff across Ireland’s public and private sectors, revealed a deeply troubling picture of a workforce in crisis and a care system under severe strain.
Behind these statistics are real people: elderly residents who deserve dignity, and frontline workers who are burnt out, underpaid, and, as a result, are leaving the profession.
SIPTU Sector Organiser, Liz Cloherty, said: “The findings of the report serve as an urgent warning to employers and the Government on the worsening crisis within the private nursing home sector, which is threatening the care of our elderly citizens.”
SIPTU members in areas impacted by the scheduled international football match against Israel on 4th October in Dublin have begun a consultation process amid growing safety and moral concerns about the fixture.
“It is clear that the vast majority of SIPTU members, as with the rest of Irish society, are strongly opposed to the playing of these games. Our members are also asking questions in relation to their right to refuse to facilitate, through the provision of aviation, transport, accommodation and broadcasting services, this match going ahead.“
- SIPTU Deputy General Secretary, Greg Ennis
Connolly’s vision. Our work continues.
One hundred and ten years ago this week James Connolly, a trade union organiser, socialist thinker, and revolutionary leader was executed, silencing one of the most powerful voices the Irish labour movement has ever known.
But his ideas? They never died.
Today, as Ireland grapples with rising inequality, as home care and ambulance workers take to the picket line and frustration grows among working people, Connolly’s legacy feels anything but distant.
In this new episode of the Unionise Podcast SIPTU General Secretary John King draws a direct line from Connolly’s struggle to the battles being fought by workers today and he had a stark warning for Government: engage seriously with workers’ living standards, or face significant industrial unrest.
With the current public sector pay agreement expiring at the end of June, the stakes could not be higher.
Listen here: https://lnkd.in/da7NSeuk
✊ Our members are on the picket line today at Blanchardstown and Inner City Home Care. They don’t want to be.
They’re here because management has refused to implement a WRC-agreed 8% pay increase. A deal was made. It must be honoured.
These workers enable people to live independently in their own homes. Their value cannot be overstated and the community knows it. The support on the picket line has been incredible, from passing drivers to the very clients our members serve every day.
Our message to management is simple: reengage with the union. Put forward a proposal your workers will accept.
Today, our General Secretary John King joined ambulance professionals and Home Care workers on the picket line in Dublin.
Our officers and NEC extend their full solidarity to every woman and man striking for pay justice, dignity and respect.
It is shameful that this Government continues to abandon working people in crisis while defending the interests of employers and vested interest groups. Workers are watching. Workers will remember.
SIPTU stands with you today and every day.
Picket lines solid across the country. The public are behind us. Ambulance professionals deserve pay justice and our communities deserve proper resources. Nothing less will do.
“Men perish, but principles live.”
The co-founder and Acting General Secretary of our union James Connolly united class, gender and anti-imperialist battles into one struggle.
His vision for Ireland led to his execution by British forces on a bright May morning 110 years ago today on 12th May 1916.
Never forgotten. Always remembered.
