This International Working Women’s Day the Trade Union Left Forum stands in solidarity with working women in Ireland and all women across the world suffering super exploitation and gender based violence. We salute the many tens of thousands of working women who are active in their trade union, community groups, social campaigns as well as bearing an unequal responsibility for rearing children and sustaining families. In particular we salute the women of occupied Palestine suffering the most horrendous and barbaric violence and genocide in Gaza and the West Bank at the hands of the zionist occupation army of the apartheid […]

Supreme Court unanimously upholds Unite’s right to strike Posted on March 6, 2024 by unitetheunion Unite reaction to historic court judgement ‘Historic’ judgement rejects employers’ injunction In a ‘landmark ruling’, the Supreme Court has today found that Unite was fully legally entitled to undertake strike action in a dispute with construction company Jones Engineering.  The strike action, which involved hundreds of mechanical workers employed by Jones Engineering, shut down construction work on Intel and Pfizer projects last year, in a dispute relating to travel time payments. Jones Engineering were initially successful in an application for an injunction, which placed extensive procedural hoops on Unite […]

Potential Trade Dispute The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has found it is “plausible” that Israel has committed acts that violate the Genocide Convention. Article 1 of the Genocide Convention, of which Ireland is a signatory, states: “The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.” Therefore the Irish government and the people of Ireland have an obligation to prevent genocide from occurring in Israel. This genocide is only possible because of the economic power of Israel, resulting […]