This month’s Lunch & Learn is a must for SNAs and education division members! Join us online on Friday, March 28th, as Deirdre Madden from Access UCC explores assistive technologies and their impact on education. Don’t miss this chance to discover tools that support learning! 

After years of union pressure, Fórsa has won a redeployment scheme for Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) starting during the next school year. If your post is cut, you’ll have the right to move to another school with vacancies instead of facing redundancy. 

Fórsa and the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) served notice of industrial action to the HSE last week, marking an escalation in the dispute over the effect of the HSE’s ‘Pay and Numbers Strategy.’

A pay deal for workers in the community and voluntary sector was finalised last week at the Workplace Relations Commission. The proposed deal is intended to address the pay gap between workers in community and voluntary organisations and equivalent grades in public sector organisations.

An Irish Congress of Trade Union (ICTU) Youth Committee delegation met with the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and a number of Irish MEPs to advocate for stronger protections for vulnerable young workers.

A historic 45-day strike in Mumbai and sustained organising across India secured maternity rights and new benefits for Community Health Workers (CHWs), following a Public Services International (PSI) led programme in the region.