This year, across workplaces and communities, members organised, applied pressure, and stood together to win real change. From headline-making strikes to quieter but no less important victories on flexibility, pay, and dignity at work, this was a year that proved a simple truth: when workers move, things shift.
The next issue of the Fórsa members’ news bulletin will be issued on Friday 16th January 2026.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank members for their readership over the year. It has been a pleasure to keep you up to date with the happenings of our union, and we look forward to doing the same next year.
A Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2026 from the Fórsa bulletin team,
Fórsa branches sleighed expectations for this year’s appeal collecting record-breaking donation of toys and the highest level of financial contributions ever received with the final tally hurtling towards 10k as we go to print.
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has called out the government on its continued discrimination against workers under the age of 21, with the practice of suppressing pay for young adults being called “grossly unfair.”