Workers’ Party Dublin councillor Éilis Ryan has condemned the intimidation of water protesters by private security firms working for Irish Water and has said the failure of the company and its agents to respond to queries and complaints from local representatives was completely unacceptable Councillor Ryan, who represents the North Inner City Ward, submitted [...]
The Workers’ Party has called on the government to block any sale of Aer Lingus and to use its strategic 25% share to ensure that the airline continues to provide vital connectivity between this country and the rest of the world. Dublin Workers’ Party councillor, Éilis Ryan, said that Aer Lingus was of vital strategic [...]
The Workers Party has described the Stormont House Agreement as a bad deal for workers and the formal and most public indication to date of the adoption of Tory economic principles and policies by the DUP/Sinn Féin led administration in Northern Ireland. At the January meeting of the Party's Central Executive Committee the Party [...]
The President of the Workers’ Party, Michael Donnelly, has said there is a judicial bias against working class people when it comes to the penalties for fraud and other financial wrongdoings. Mr. Donnelly said that the five year prison sentence handed down to a man convicted of social welfare fraud was in stark contrast [...]
Statement of the Workers' Party of Ireland on the Paris attack The Workers’ Party of Ireland condemns today’s brutal and murderous attack on the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo which has produced understandable anger and indignation throughout France, Europe and the world. The Workers' Party expresses its sincere condolences to the families [...]
Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan has said that it is time to replace two decades of lip-service on hospital overcrowding with immediate action to end the scandal of sick patients lying on trolleys in hospital corridors and wards. Cllr. Tynan said that the hospital trolley crisis, like the Winter Vomiting bug, had become an [...]
The Workers Party has responded to the public consultation on the draft budget proposals of a number of Executive Departments. Follow the links below for comments on the Education, Health and Social Care, Employment & Learning and Culture, Arts and Leisure draft budget proposals. The Party has also commented on the Executive’s overall funding proposals for 2015 [...]
The President of the Workers’ Party, Michael Donnelly, has expressed strong support for the campaign launched by the Mandate trade union today (Friday) for decent pay and conditions of employment for workers employed by Dunnes Stores. Mr. Donnelly said that Mandate were raising an important and timely issue which affects thousands of workers in [...]
The Workers’ Party of Ireland welcomes the release of the remaining members of the Cuban Five after long years of false imprisonment in the US. The WPI salutes the Cuban heroes who were unjustly arrested by the FBI on 12 September 1998, falsely charged with espionage, wrongfully convicted in a U.S. federal court in Miami [...]
Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has said that he is not surprised by the findings of a new ESRI report on the effects of government budgetary policy over the past six years which showed a 13% drop in income for the least well off. Cllr. Tynan said that the report demolished Tánaiste Joan Burton’s [...]