Workers Rights

Gerry Carroll in front of the 2023 Picket at Ulster University in Belfast

Carroll on Ulster University Job Losses: Cash for Campuses, Cuts for Workers

"I am demanding answers from the University of Ulster: what jobs they plan to cut, what impact it will have on the education of students, and where else could the funds be found instead."

15 Apr 2026

Shaun Harkin and a full lecture hall at UU Magee with headline from the Derry Journal saying: UCU says it will ‘not stand idly by’ over 450 potential redundancies at Ulster University

Up to 450 redundancies UU - Harkin: "Abject cowardice of senior leadership"

“We offer our solidarity to all workers at UU at this time and look forward to joining you on the picket line if and when you decide to fight these job cuts.”

15 Apr 2026

HQ Invest Northern Ireland

Business Lobby's Attack on Good Jobs Bill Shows Exactly Why Workers Need Stronger Protections

"The last time the Alliance party had the chance to vote to change the outdated, Thatcherite trade union laws, they voted against the Trade Union Freedom Bill... You cannot be a party of both big business and workers. It's one or the other, and Alliance needs to get off the fence..." Gerry Carroll

14 Apr 2026

Fuel Price Caps Now slogan in front of a beautiful image of detail of central heating unit.

More Than Words- Stormont Executive Parties and SDLP Must Now Act to Introduce Fuel Price Caps

Stormont Executive Parties and SDLP must now support implementation of People Before Profit Council motion which they unanimously endorsed demanding energy price caps and regulation says Shaun Harkin.

13 Apr 2026

Abstract image of windmills and world map. Title CUT COSTS NOT LIVING STANDARDS followed by description 'An emergency plan to tackle the Fuel Crisis and break from Fossil Capitalism'.

Cut Costs Not Living Standards: Cost of Energy Action Programme

Download People Before Profit's 'Cost Of Energy Action Programme' here. It is our costed emergency action plan to tackle the Fuel Crisis and break Ireland from Fossil Capitalism.

13 Apr 2026

Tractors on a quiet O'Connell Street Saturday 11 April with the Jim Larkin Statue GPO and Spire in the background

The Fuel Protests: Blame The Government Not the Protesters

Back the basic demands. Defend the right to protest. Oppose the frauds on the far-right and discuss the protest leaders, but let's keep coming back to the real issue of unbearable price increases and where they come from. Workers, unions- let's deepen the movement for a country we can all live in.

12 Apr 2026

Strike Support Call: Northside Home Care Services

Strike Support Call: Northside Home Care Services

Sonya Borwick, a Northside Home Care Services Rep with the Independent Workers Union, again calls for an end to the direct discriminitation of section 39

11 Apr 2026

Denman Rooke ar son Ghaillimh Thiar - For Galway West; Campaign Launch Even; The ol'55 Bar; 30 Prospect Hill; 13th April at 7pm13 April

Galway West By-Election Candidate Launch 13 April 7pm

Denman Rooke kicks off his campaign as People Before Profit's representative in Galway West on Monday.

7 Apr 2026

View of the counter protest with union flags prominent in front of landmark Coleraine Town Hall.

Facing Down the Far Right

Coleraine was a defeat for the ONIV's 'bizarre' would-be campaigners this weekend. Less than 1 in 10 of their projected numbers actually turned out and they were outnumbered by a vibrant counter-protest organised by Causeway Trade Union Council union members and members of People Before Profit.

7 Apr 2026