Carmel Redmond, Fergus Dowd and Jane Crowe at Dublin Book Launch for Tales from the Debenhams Picket Line

Debenhams Workers Launch Book

In Dublin yesterday Debenhams workers launched ‘Tales from the Debenhams Picket Line’ Our members attended and elected representatives were presented with copies of the book. The fight against the bosses and the state goes on whenever we tell the story of this massive 406-day fight.

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Glen Dimplex Workers on picket line in Portadown Co. Antrim with Unite the union.

Strike Beats Billionaire In Portadown

But this week in Portadown, the workers in Naughton’s Glen Dimplex factory put their tools down together to say enough.
Unite members in the factory voted 96% to strike in favour of a 13% pay increase: giving them for the first time a new pay rate of just over £10.00/hour. The strikers won on Thursday just two days into their planned three-day strike.

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What A Sick World

On Wednesday a 14-year-old Kurdish boy froze to death near Kuznica on the Polish Belarus border. He was used as a pawn in an awful

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