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TRADE UNIONS / SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP

The naked emperor of social partnership steps out again - 17/02/08

Benchmarking – welcome to the race to the bottom? - 19/01/08

A new stage in partnership? - 25/11/07

What sort of Economy? What sort of working class? - 11/11/07

Classroom assistants strike rally – Lions led by Donkeys - 02/10/07

Airport workers story - Heroism, victory, opportunity? - 08/09/07

Hypocrisy takes off –  Aer Lingus shafts Irish workers in move to Belfast - 15/08/07

The Post Office: An Anatomy of a Dispute - 01/07/07

May Day and Irish workers - 15/05/07

Leaflet distributed at Dublin May Day rally - Support the Nurses!  Smash Social Partnership! - 29/04/07

Public sector workers struggle against the bonds of social partnership - 27/04/07

Report on the Independent Workers Union conference - 08/04/07

Nurses strike blind to hidden enemy - 07/04/07

Aer Lingus and Ryanair - The acceptable and unacceptable faces of capitalism? - 20/10/06

Fighting Social Partnership:  Left race to the bottom - 01/08/06

Another example of social partnership in action - 20/07/06

Towards 2016 – the new social partnership deal: fighting against it - 05/07/06

Towards 2016 – the new social partnership deal: what’s in it - 04/07/06

The Ghost of partnership past  …. or a tale of partnership present? - 05/07/06

Inside the INTO conference - 02/07/06

The rant from the right - neoliberal economists rubbish social partnership - 09/06/06

INTO Congress - 01/0506

Interview with Independent Workers Union president - 22/04/06

Independent Workers Union Conference - 20/04/06

Pensions Strike - Plenty of power, but little independence - 07/04/06

Report on INTO Conference - 18/03/06

Significance of the postal strike - 24/02/06

The Belfast postal strike - 22/02/06

A postal worker speaks - 14/02/02

New campaign against coke - 20/02/06

Debate: Who won at Irish Ferries? - 20/02/06

SWP conference: 'A New Trade Unionism' - 12/02/06

Civil servants narrowly reject strike call - 04/02/06

Trade unions sign up to new partnership talks - 02/02/06

Irish Ferries: The ‘race to the bottom’ continues - 03/01/06

Irish Ferries: The significance of the December 9th mobilisations - 03/01/06

Irish Ferries: The role of the left - 03/01/06

Smaller but wiser: Is a rank and file fightback in the trade unions on the cards? - 07/1105

Will Irish Ferries sink Social Partnership? - 01/11/05

Three strategies for trade unionism - 26/09/05

Labour Relations Commission reports historic low level of strike activity - 05/07/05

Lessons from Gama - 01/06/05

Workers mobilise against education cuts - 15/05/05

Trade Union activists meet in Dublin - 08/05/05

May Day in Belfast – an opportunity for unity and a celebration of disunity - 02/05/05

Leaflet - Trade Union Activist Forum: A One Day Meeting For Activists Who Want A Return To Real Trade Unionism - April 05

Coca Cola: The Price of Loyalty - 29/04/05

INTO Conference: Social Partnership – Déjà vu all over again - 02/04/05

Major defeat for coke at INTO conference - 02/04/05

INTO conference: British spell out the end of social partnership to slow learners - 21/03/05

Lessons of the Northern Ireland Civil Service Strike - 08/03/05

Fallout from teachers strike – New Labour launch attack on public services - 22/11/04

Sinaltrainal in Ireland - 17/11/04

SIPTU Conference rejects call to disinvest in Coca Cola - 10/10/04

Teachers’ pay campaign ends in sell out - 15/0904

NI Civil Service dispute stutters to a close - 15/09/04

The Awkward Squad - 20/08/04

Interview with Javier Correa, President of Sinaltrainal, on the Coca Cola boycott campaign - 26/06/04

Report and Critique of Siptu Public Meeting on Colombia - 26/05/04

Report on the Belfast May Day Demonstration - 01/05/04

New Union launched in Cork - 05/04/04

The Trade Union Movement in Ireland Part 2 – The Rush to join Privatisation - 04/04/04

Statement  - A warm welcome to the Independent Workers Union - 03/04/04

The state of the Trade Union Movement in Ireland Part 1 – The Fight against Transport Privatisation - 22/03/04

Teachers action marks beginning of the end for local partnership - 08/03/04

An Irish union and Coke – in partnership with terror - 30/01/04

Boycotting Coca Cola - 30/01/04

What is at stake in the NI Civil Service pay dispute - 30/01/04

Where will the resistance come from? - 23/01/04

Belfast meeting on coke boycott - 13/11/03

ICTU Conference meets amid fruits of partnership - 15/07/03

Bombardier threatens more redundancies in Belfast - 14/06/03

The Politics of Social Partnership: Organisation and Bureaucracy - 28/04/03

TUI Congress Delegates Organise Solidarity with Educationalists in Iraq - 25/04/03

'Parting Company: Ending Social Partnership': Review of new pamphlet from the Irish Socialist Network - 09/03/03

Dissolving Partnership:  Independent Socialist Reviews ‘Prisoners of Social Partnership’ - February 2003

Union, Business and Government Bosses agree to screw Irish Workers - 28/01/03

Hidden agenda mars Fire Brigade support march - 14/12/02

Budget 2003: A fine example of Social Partnership - 08/12/02

Benchmarking Report into Public Sector Workers Pay – What does it Mean? - 06/07/02

ATGWU witch hunt: A new union for workers? - July 2002

The Significance of the Aer Lingus Pilots’ Strike - 10/06/02

Rank and file teachers discuss trade union fightback - 13/03/02

Workers’ Pay and the Economy - 03/03/02

Aer Lingus - Here comes the Recession - November 2001

Trade Unions - How not to build a resistance - November 2001

Defend Mick O'Reilly - August 2001

Lessons of the teachers' strike - August 2001

New campaign for the Trade Unions - May 2001
 
 
 
 

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