Councillor Éilis Ryan, the Workers’ Party candidate for Dublin Central has said that if Ireland signs the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) the manifesto commitments of all political parties on a wide range of issues would be rendered meaningless. Cllr. Ryan said the Irish people and the citizens of the EU as a whole [...]
Over 20,000 living in deprivation in Minister Donohoe’s constituency The Workers’ Party candidate in Dublin Central, Cllr Eilis Ryan, today (Sunday) said that Fine Gael’s claims of economic recovery are ringing hollow in Dublin Central, where an estimated 20,000 people are suffering multiple deprivation experiences based on an extrapolation from CSO figures. “Fine Gael’s Minister [...]
Workers Party Dublin Central candidate Cllr. Éilis Ryan has expressed support for the 580 Xtravision workers who have been made redundant and are now fighting for entitlements they were promised would be secured. Cllr. Ryan said that more than four years after the Vita Cortex debacle in Cork in which employees had to sit-in their [...]
Seamus McDonagh (WP) Meath East Workers’ Party representative Seamus McDonagh has hit out at Junior Minister Damien English following the announcement that €18 million of taxpayers’ money is being spent on a new Geo-Science research unit at UCD. Mr. McDonagh said that the announcement was a sop to the multi-nationals such as the [...]
Workers' Party Dublin North West representative Jimmy Dignam has offered his full support to nurses at Beaumont Hospital who have announced industrial action in response to unsafe staffing levels at the hospital. Speaking to activists in his constituency, Dignam said, 'The fact that 99% of Irish Nurses & Midwives’ Organisation’s members in the medical and [...]
The Workers' Party expresses its strong support for the campaign of student nurses and midwives to win equality of treatment from the HSE for final year students who perform the same work as qualified staff as part of their final year "internship" programme. Final year student nurses and midwives are required, as part of [...]
The Workers’ Party have condemned today’s budget as one which has benefitted the better off once again while throwing a few crumbs at workers and the poor with a focus on the general election rather than social justice. Workers’ Party President Michael Donnelly said that for all the hype on the 75% Christmas Bonus for [...]
The Workers’ Party have described the recommendation of a 50 cent per hour increase in the statutory Minimum Wage by the Low Pay Commission as a gross insult to the many thousands of low paid workers in the state. The party’s Dublin councillor Éilis Ryan said that the Low Pay Commission had lived up to [...]
The Workers Party extends its solidarity with striking bus workers. The irony will not be lost on striking NBRU and SIPTU workers today, as they are forced out on strike on International Workers' Day. Party President Michael Donnelly commented on today's industrial dispute: "As the media and government ratchets up its propaganda offensive against these [...]
The Workers’ Party has thrown its support behind the Mandate trade union and has called for massive public solidarity with the striking workers who are fighting for an end to low-hours and uncertain contracts, for fair pay, a review of Dunnes’ excessive use of temporary contracts and the right to be fully represented by their [...]
