A team leader for the outsourcing company Abtran, who at one point worked on their account with Electric Ireland, said that they would bully any members of their team who joined a trade union. Reddit user DannyFoley96 (whose account and posts have since been deleted) made posts threatening Abtran employees who were engaging in or … Read more
Unionised workers at call centre company Abtran have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action in a ballot distributed to members last month. This comes after a pay claim delivered by workers to Abtran was ignored by the company. In May, the workers, all of whom are members of the Independent Workers Union (IWU), launched a claim … Read more
Workplace disputes in Ireland are often shelved or fly under the radar from mainstream media coverage. If they are taken on, they are often covered in a malinformed way that intends to vilify the workers and reduce mass support. Yet the work put into the Iceland Foods Ireland campaign is becoming increasingly unavoidable to cover … Read more
Members of the Independent Workers’ Union employed in four Iceland stores, have announced that they will be taking strike action starting Friday, 19 May. Strike notice was served to Homesavers, Iceland’s parent company after ballots in stores in Ballyfermot, Coolock, Tallaght, and Northside Shopping centre. The ballots returned 100 per cent agreement among IWU members … Read more
Only when Irish and migrant workers unite and tear down barriers of language and nationality can the bosses be defeated and the downward trend of wages and conditions reversed.