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Update your contact details
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Fórsa supports Myanmar and its workers
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Grant scheme invites applications
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Fórsa: Here to support you
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Labour Court marks 75 years
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Major concessions lead to school strike deferral
by Bernard Harbor and Niall Shanahan
 

A national one-day strike by school secretaries and caretakers, which was scheduled to take place this week, was deferred when the education department made significant concessions in a Workplace Relations Commission-brokered negotiation.

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Engagement paramount to campus return
by Róisín McKane
 

Fórsa is currently engaging with higher education employers on a range of measures ahead of the phased return of staff and students to campus later this month.

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Delay urged for planned pension age increase
by Niall Shanahan
 

It’s been reported that the Pensions Commission has recommended that a planned increase in the State pension age to 67 should be delayed by at least seven years.

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Blended working talks to get underway
by Bernard Harbor
 

Fórsa is to sit down with civil service management for talks on a ‘blended working’ policy next week. 

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Congress concerns on housing plan
by Bernard Harbor
 

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has expressed "significant concerns” about the targets for public housing provision, affordable housing and cost rental homes set out in the Government’s new housing policy.

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Fórsa launches skills academy
by Róisín McKane
 

The new home for all of Fórsa’s training and development initiatives was launched yesterday (16th September). The Fórsa Skills Academy will offer a wide range of introductory, expanded and advanced training designed for the union’s workplace representatives and branch activists.

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