policy Energy Policy Re-nationalisation is the only way to address the climate and cost of living crisis and make the essential changes we need to our energy system. We need to develop a 2 Oct 2024
Cost Of Living Pilots Dispute: There Is Only One Side To Blame Pilots at Aer Lingus are being subject to a high level of media abuse. RTÉ gave a platform to Willie Walshe, the former CEO of Aer Lingus and British Airways, 25 Jun 2024
Cost Of Living Big Carbon Polluters Go Free – But We Pay The biggest carbon polluters in Ireland get off scot-free – even as ordinary people are stung with a carbon tax. Ryanair pumps out 10 million tons of carbon a year but 5 Apr 2024
Workers Rights No To Executive: Public Sector Work Worth More With inflation running at 4 percent, a 5 percent pay rise amounts in actuality to a 1 percent rise. Public sector workers deserve more than the Stormont Executive is presently 5 Mar 2024
Cost Of Living Food Poverty 41% – In the last year, that’s the number of parents who have had to skip meals or reduce their portions so that their kids could have enough to eat. 27 Feb 2024
Workers Rights Rents Are Rising Much Faster Than Wages New figures from Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) show that national average rents for new tenancies were €1,598 per month last September, up 11% on the previous year. Existing tenancies 9 Feb 2024
Workers Rights Pay Deal Does Not Add Up The leaders of the ICTU are saying the pay negotiations are over and they have got as much as they can get from the current process. But it still leaves 5 Feb 2024
Cost Of Living Public Pay Deal Completely Inadequate Public sector workers got an increase of 4% in 2022 when inflation was 7.2%. (Some got an additional 1% which was earmarked for local bargaining to sort out local 11 Jan 2024
Housing 2023: Socialism Is The Answer To A World In Crisis 2023: Socialism is the Answer to a World in Crisis A year ago, we were told that rising prices were a temporary phenomenon. There was no need to worry and 31 Dec 2022