Workers Rights

'Almost half of people in Ballyfermot and Cherry Orchard regularly miss meals due to a lack of money': Cllr Hazel De Nortúin

'Almost half of people in Ballyfermot and Cherry Orchard regularly miss meals due to a lack of money': Cllr Hazel De Nortúin

Says poverty is a policy choice that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael choose to continue at every budget. Calls for food price caps to end food poverty.

25 Jun 2025

Face down the Far Right or Face More of their Pogroms

Face down the Far Right or Face More of their Pogroms

People Before Profit urge support for Sunday's United Against Racism demonstration to counter far right. Says racist pogrom in Ballymena is what the far right will bring to more communities if not faced down. Says housing and other crises are not caused by asylum seekers - Government to blame.

19 Jun 2025

Cruel, Punishing Budget Won’t Deliver for Working Class People

Cruel, Punishing Budget Won’t Deliver for Working Class People

'No new mitigations for Labour’s brutal social security cuts... People are fed up of business as usual. There is plenty of wealth in our society that could be properly taxed and used to fund our public services,' says Gerry Carroll voting against the 2025/26 Budget today.

23 May 2025

Government accused of siding with 'low pay bosses' against workers

Government accused of siding with 'low pay bosses' against workers

The Fine Gael-Lowry Group-Fianna Fáil Government look set to vote against People Before Profit's Trade Union Recognition Bill which would get Irish workers a right to trade union recognition at thousands of workplaces around the country.

14 May 2025

Time to Stand with Workers – Not with the Bosses

Time to Stand with Workers – Not with the Bosses

Trade Union Recognition Bill to Be Debated and Voted on in the Dáil This Wednesday.

12 May 2025

Dublin Public Meeting: Malcolm X at 100– Racism and Revolution today

Dublin Public Meeting: Malcolm X at 100– Racism and Revolution today

'You can’t have capitalism without racism,' stated Malcolm X, and 100 years on from his birth racism is again on the rise in the context of heightened capitalist exploitation, oppression and crisis. Meeting upstairs Bar Rua in Dublin, Tuesday 20 May 7pm.

9 May 2025

Taoiseach, Stop the ‘illegal, discriminatory justification’ of ‘anti-worker’ sub-minimum wage rates for young workers.

Taoiseach, Stop the ‘illegal, discriminatory justification’ of ‘anti-worker’ sub-minimum wage rates for young workers.

Taoiseach accused of ‘illegal, discriminatory justification’ of ‘anti-worker’ sub-minimum wage rates for young workers on International Workers' Day. Dail & Commission agreed to scrap sub-minimum wage pay for under 20s, but government is refusing to implement it.

1 May 2025

Unite to Fight Back on International Workers Day 2025

Unite to Fight Back on International Workers Day 2025

It was the socialist working-class, organised in unions, who won the weekend, the 8-hour day, sick pay... every gain we’ve made came from our struggle against the bosses. Today, those gains are under attack. Join us on the streets. March with your union. March with your class.

1 May 2025

20 Highest-paid Managers of State Bodies Promised Pay Rise by Government

20 Highest-paid Managers of State Bodies Promised Pay Rise by Government

People Before Profit have criticised government plans to increase the salaries of 20 of the highest-paid managers of state bodies. This comes on top of the announcement that the new ‘Housing Tsar’ is to be paid €430,000

30 Apr 2025