Maeve O’Sullivan:The world is reeling from recent tech job losses and the global recession. But Ireland is well positioned to respond to these challenges if it can address its labour market inequality.Read the full article
Theo Morrissey:“Rather than vying for space in the middle of a saturated election campaign, the Irish election suggests that trade unions can affect political change by putting in the hard slog ahead of time to lay the foundations.”Read the full article
The Emerald Warriors, Ireland’s first LGBT rugby team, aims to be inclusive by welcoming players regardless of their sexuality. It is one way of disproving the chauvinistic and homophobic clichés surrounding rugby.Read the full article
On 14 June, the women of Argentina made history: the lower house of Congress passed a bill to decriminalise abortion. Macri’s decision to process the bill is a testament to the strength of the feminist movement in Argentina. But it is not only in this Latin American country that feminist [...]Read the full article
A referendum that could enable the liberalisation of access to abortion is set to be held at the end of May in Ireland. It is a unique opportunity for supporters of this right, who are working to mobilise all their resources, in a country where laws on abortion are amongst the most restrictive [...]Read the full article
Patricia King:Having a job was once the surest route out of poverty. But with these corrosive, precarious work practices across the developed world, this is no longer caseRead the full article
Workers in Ireland are being asked to speak out about ethics in the workplace this month after President Michael D. Higgins called for an inquiry into the importance of ethics in business and society in response to the economic crisis and its destructive [...]Read the full article
To address the challenges, not caused only by the disease but also its treatment and the impact it has on workers, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has published a new bookletRead the full article