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Four-day week campaign goes west
by Niall Shanahan and Mehak Dugal
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A gender gap that works for women
by Hazel Gavigan
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Unions rail against great pension robbery
by Bernard Harbor
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Travellers hide identity at work
by Niall Shanahan
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Tribute paid to Dunnes strikers
by Bernard Harbor
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No progress in school secretary talks
by Niall Shanahan
 

Further talks regarding school secretaries pay and conditions are scheduled at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) in early December.

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Gender-proofed ads help women compete
by Mehak Dugal
 

A tech company that ‘gender-proofed’ its recruitment adverts saw an 80% increase in the number of women recruited into technical positions, according to a new report on female participation in senior management roles.

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Public-private pay gap narrows
by Bernard Harbor
 

The gap between earnings in the public and private sectors narrowed between 2015 and 2018, despite the fact that significant restoration of crisis-era pay cuts took place in that period.

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Fórsa urges government action on Colombia
 

Fórsa general secretary Kevin Callinan has sought a meeting with Tánaiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney to discuss the union’s concerns about the escalating violence against social leaders and trade union activists in Colombia.

 

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Fórsa witnesses hope and tensions in Palestine
by Niall Shanahan
 

Fórsa’s Head of Education Andy Pike recently returned from a field trip examining Education Provision in the occupied Palestinian territories, accompanied by school secretary Kathleen O'Doherty, SNAs Annette Murphy and Niamh Jordan and Shelley Healey from the union's Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown branch. 

 

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