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Richard Boyd Barrett Condemns Gardaí For Assisting Strike Breakers In Debenhams Dispute At Frascati Centre, Blackrock

People Before Profit TD for Dún Laoghaire Richard Boyd Barrett has condemned the role that the Gardaí played in facilitating strike breaking efforts by a company who have moved boxes

25 Sep 2020

Workers Rights

Debenhams Workers Applauded In Waterford

Debenhams workers and their supporters were applauded by people on the streets, as they marched through Waterford on Saturday.  The march was part of a nationwide demonstration to mark their

14 Sep 2020

Workers Rights

Government Failure To Legislate To Protect Redundant Workers Over Many Years Means They Must Take Responsibility For Ensuring Just Settlement For Debenhams Workers

Leaders’ Questions: Government failure to legislate to protect redundant workers over many years means they must take responsibility for ensuring just settlement for Debenhams workers At Leaders’ Questions today, People

10 Sep 2020

Workers Rights

People Before Profit Asking The Public To Support Debenhams Workers Demonstration

A March in support of Debenhams’ workers will set out from City Square at 2pm on Saturday next, 5 September. The march, which is part of a nation-wide protest, will

2 Sep 2020

Workers Rights

Support Premier Periclase Workers

There’s a dispute in Premiere Periclase in the Boyne Valley outside of Drogheda. ‘Periclase’ manufacture the essential basic components needed to produce glass, copper and steel. When lockdown happened-

28 Aug 2020

Workers Rights

Workers To Pay Price For Government Failures

The new restrictions announced by the Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael-Green government yesterday are the culmination of months of shambolic mismanagement and spineless kowtowing to major business interests. As a result of

19 Aug 2020

Workers Rights

Workers Protests Set To Topple Belarus Regime

The Belarusian president Aleksander Lukashenko was fighting for the survival of his regime on Monday. Mass protests and, crucially, strikes havefollowed a rigged election in the east European country last

17 Aug 2020

Workers Rights

Debenhams: Liquidator Threatens Legal Action

Workers must build the pickets In a letter to the Debenhams workers yesterday MANDATE says that the liquidator KPMG has warned that “if the union and its members continue to

17 Aug 2020

Workers Rights

Debenhams Workers Fight On: Unions Must Get Fully Behind The Workers

The Debenhams dispute continues. Eddie Conlon sets out what needs to be done to win. Spirits are high on the Debenhams pickets. PBP members have been on picket lines this

14 Aug 2020