IMPACT’s campaign against the excessive hours worked by residential care staff has moved up a gear after unions lodged a formal complaint with the European Commission earlier this month. The union is also holding regional meetings in March to brief members on the case and build the campaign on the ground.

IMPACT and other unions with members in Aer Lingus and the Dublin and Shannon airport authorities are meeting today (Friday) to discuss their next steps in the dispute over the Irish Aviation Superannuation Scheme (IASS), which covers staff in the three companies.

IMPACT’s Boards and Voluntary Agencies branch is seeking commitments to Dublin’s homelessness services from local election candidates in all four of the city’s local authorities.

IMPACT’s local government division has called a meeting of its branches next Friday (28th February) to coordinate local negotiations arising from the abolition of town councils. Eighty town councils are to be scrapped under the Local Government Bill, which was published last October.

Dublin Community TV’s film The Inquiry features at the Jameson Dublin international film festival tomorrow (Saturday). The dramatisation of the Askwith Inquiry, which took place during the 1913 Lockout, will be screened at the Lighthouse cinema in Dublin’s Smithfield at 12.30pm on Saturday 22^nd February.