Contents in this issue: Reopening of Schools Draft Plan on Parking Bye Laws Climate Crisis and COVID-19 Public Inquiry needed to COVID-19 related deaths in Nursing Homes Debenhams workers: Fighting for a fair redundancy Dignity in Dying Bill 2020 New … Continue reading PBP Lucan Newsletter Autumn 2020
More than 120 healthcare workers were diagnosed with Covid-19 in the past week as transmission levels increase across the country, new figures show. The general secretary of the INMO, Phil Ní Sheaghdha, has spoken out against the lack of testing, … Continue reading Anti-Mask Is Anti-Worker
The dangerous anti-mask rally in Dublin on Saturday last, not only endangered the health of those attending, and anyone who had contact with them, it also provided a flag of convenience for right wing extremists who have been trying to … Continue reading Anti Mask Campaign Threatens Front Line Workers And Boosts The Far Right
Serious concerns of stakeholders fall on government deaf ears People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny, following correspondence with the office of the Minister for Education that she will not appear before the Oireachtas Covid Committee until next week, has said … Continue reading Refusal from Education Minister to go before Covid Committee this week means no opposition oversight a head of school reopening
People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny has called for the resignation of EU Commissioner Phil Hogan, Supreme Court Judge Seamus Woulfe, the Independent TD Noel Grealish and the other elected representatives who attended the Oireachtas Golf Society dinner, breaching the … Continue reading Gino Kenny TD has called for the resignation of EU Commissioner Phil Hogan
Growing concerns about safety of students and teachers means Dáil must be recalled to get a full report from the Minister in relation to schools reopening In a statement today People Before Profit has called on the Minister for Education … Continue reading PBP says Minister for Education must come out of hiding
We are now at serious risk of a second wave of Covid-19, with between 38-69 new cases being reported every day in the South for the past week. The number of positive tests in the North has now multiplied by … Continue reading Failure To Protect Workers Could Seed Second Wave
July Stimulus Package – Public Investment to End Neoliberalism Today the government announce a major package to stimulate the economy. The details will be made clear later on, but it is likely that the state will borrow in the region … Continue reading We Need Public Investment To End Neoliberalism
People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny will today call on the Minister for Education to instigate an ‘On Call for Ireland’ for Education as it is becoming clearer that Ireland still faces dramatic challenges regarding Covid 19. The TD will … Continue reading Gino Kenny TD to call on Education Minister to instigate ‘On Call for Ireland’ for Education in Dáil today
TD to also raise Support our Secretaries campaign At the Covid Committee today, which is covering the area of education, People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny will call for an ‘On Call for Ireland’ campaign for education in order to … Continue reading Gino Kenny TD to call for an ‘On Call for Ireland’ campaign for Education
Aer Lingus is embarking on a strategy that will impoverish its workforce. Pays cuts of 70% of income is planned as well as major changes in conditions. It began when Aer Lingus announced that they would unilaterally implement a productivity … Continue reading Stop Pay Cuts At Aer Lingus
Despite a concerted attempt to stop protests, the Black Lives Matters movement drew thousands onto the streets over the past few days with social distancing. The worst attempt to prevent protests occurred in the North where police staged roadblocks, called … Continue reading Police Criminalizing Protests Despite Social Distancing Observed
TD says staff reductions are crazy in light of Covid crisis and possible restrictions on school opening Gino Kenny TD pleads for Scoil Ida’s teacher ratio to stay the same for coming year in light of Covid crisis People … Continue reading Calls for Government to freeze proposed teacher reductions in primary schools
We could pay the €350 Covid-19 payment for SIX years and that would still only equal what was paid in bank bailout. These are the startling facts which the mainstream media does not report. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are … Continue reading We Bailed Out Banks- We Can Keep The €350 Covid-19 Payment
People Before Profit TDs, speaking at a media conference before the Dáil session on Thursday, said that the government must do more to protect vulnerable workers and sectors whose jobs and health in some cases are in a precarious position … Continue reading PBP say government must do more to protect vulnerable workers during and following Covid-19 crisis
