Dublin
Thomas Cook Dublin: Workers Released
The 28 workers arrested this morning for occupying the Grafton Street outlet of Thomas Cook were released this afternoon after agreeing not to resume their occupation or damage the property of Thomas Cook.
On Friday 31 July Thomas Cook managers and security went to close down shops in Dublin at 10 a.m. Over 70 staff were sacked and offered an appalling 5 weeks redundancy pay with the threat that it would be dropped to two weeks if the workers did not accept it. Staff in two of the outlets then occupied their workplaces in response.
Protests due after police raid Thomas Cook occupation in Dublin
Protests have been called at short notice in Dublin and Belfast after 28 workers occupying Thomas Cook offices in Dublin's Grafton Street fighting jobs cuts were arrested this morning.
Protesting former workers at travel operator Thomas Cook in Dublin were arrested after after early-morning Garda raids for defying a court order to end a four-day sit-in at company premises in a dispute over redundancy payments.
Thomas Cook outlets in Dublin occupied against closure
On Friday 31 July Thomas Cook managers and security went to close down shops in Dublin at 10 a.m. Staff in two of the outlets then occupied their workplaces in response.
The workers, some of whom are members of the Transport and Salaried Staff Association (TSSA), have since been served a court ordered to leave the premises but are refusing to budge.
Bus worker wildcats spread across Dublin north
The wildcat strike action taken by Dublin Bus drivers has spread to four new garages as the dispute enters its third day.
The dispute began on Sunday after a driver at the Harristown depot was suspended when he refused to work a new schedule.
The 450 staff at the Harristown depot stopped work in solidarity with the driver before the dispute spread to the Clontarf depot.
At present just two depots are operating (based in South Dublin) with almost all of the North Dublin routes brought to a total standstill.
Shannon air traffic controllers wildcat
Air traffic controllers at Shannon Airport were on wildcat strike for two hours this evening as part of a long running dispute.
The strike follows an unofficial overtime ban at Dublin airport last month. Ryanair claimed that flights from Dublin would also be affected by the strike.
Air traffic controllers on unofficial overtime ban
Thirty two flights were delayed at Dublin airport last night due to an unofficial overtime ban by air traffic controllers.
Air traffic controllers said that no new employees have been hired since the 9-11 attacks over six years ago. Around a hundred workers work on a 24-hour roster.
The story of the Irish Citizen Army, 1913-1916 - Sean O'Casey
An important document of Irish labour history, freely available online for the first time here, O'Casey's book tells the history of the formation of the Irish Citizen Army in 1913.
The workers' militia was formed by the Transport and General Workers Union in Dublin in 1913, shortly after the great Dublin lockout and strike of that year. Originally formed to defend workers' demonstrations from attacks by police, O'Casey charts developments as they conclude with the Citizen Army participating in the nationalist Dublin Easter Uprising of 1916.
Dublin: Wildcat strike in Musgrave warehouse
On 27th of April a spontaneous wildcat strike broke out in Musgrave warehouses in Dublin.
The whole crew, around 80 people, both immigrant and natives - in solidarity stopped their work after successive acts of discrimination by the management.
1993-1996: The Dublin fight against water charges
A short history of the successful direct action campaign of non-payment which prevented the imposition of charges for water in Dublin, Ireland.
Winning the water war
Dealing with the nightmare; Dublin Anti-Drugs Campaigns
A review of "Pushers Out: The inside story of Dublin’s anti-drugs movement" by Andre Lyder.
Walk five minutes from O’Connell St, Dublin’s main thoroughfare, or five minutes from Christ Church Cathedral, an important tourist attraction, and you will find yourself in a very different world from that depicted in the tourist brochures...
