The Fórsa campaign for proper recognition of school secretaries and caretakers is set to intensify and escalate when schools re-open after the summer break, according to the union’s campaigns director.

Planned increases in the State pension age will cost workers at least €26,000, plus benefits like free travel and the fuel allowance, according to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU).

The Government has been urged to reconsider its “shameful” decision to block new legislation that would oblige restauranteurs to pass on tips to their staff. 

Former President Mary Robinson urged union members to “get angry and take action” over climate change when she addressed the Irish Congress of Trade Unions' biennial conference in Dublin last Wednesday (3rd July).

Rent increases have pushed the ‘living wage’ up by 40 cent in the last year according to the Living Wage Technical Group, which calculates the minimum full-time earnings needed to support an acceptable standard of livin

Fórsa vice president Margaret Coughlan has called on unions to take action to improve their gender balance at senior levels.  

Thirty-four trade union leaders were murdered in Colombia last year, twice as many as in 2017, according to Fórsa General Secretary Eoin Ronayne.