Mark your diaries! Join us for our annual Mayday March & Rally on Thursday 1st May. Assemble from 6.30pm at the Garden of Remembrance, marching at 7pm to Liberty Hall for the rally. We’ve a great lineup of speakers. Come one, come all. We have a world to win! Please share!

Assistant General Secretary Moira Leydon presented the findings from our survey 'School leaders: workload, wellbeing and curriculum change' this morning - find the full report here: asti.ie/news-campaigns…

Every worker deserves to be paid at least a living wage. #LivingWage Irish Congress (ICTU)

Speaking on behalf of our 46 affiliated unions, General Secretary ⁦Owen Reidy⁩ said: “Government’s new Action Plan on Competitiveness is nothing more than a ruse for taking a wrecking ball to recent wins on workers’ rights.” search.app/HBntBohnzPYko5…

“There is no union without workers, and there are no free workers without a union,” Pope Francis. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

Labour’s Duncan Smith TD expresses sympathy on the death of Pope Francis. labour.ie/news/2025/04/2…

Pope Francis’s leadership & courage on work, climate, migration, peace, on Gaza, and for always standing up and speaking out for the marginalised and disenfranchised in a deeply divided world is a remarkable legacy. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

Pope Francis' papacy had a consistent global anti-poverty message which in a world that is increasingly unequal and divided, has a more significant resonance now more than ever. labour.ie/news/2025/04/2…

Our waste collection system is dysfunctional in many parts of the country. Something has to change and 👇offers important opportunity for State to grasp the nettle Important analysis by Ian Guider in Sunday’s Business Post businesspost.ie/article/ian-gu…

Bernie Sanders, Mick Lynch and more are set to speak at The Robert Tressell Festival this year hotpress.com/culture/robert…

"Let no Irishman throw a stone at the foreigner; he may hit his own clansman." - James Connolly, 1908

56% of people disagree with Fine Gael’s decision to row back on workers rights.

Lest we forget. #MayDay

“No nation can be free that denies its workers the right to organise.” James Connolly

“The cause of labour is the cause of Ireland, the cause of Ireland is the cause of labour. They cannot be dissevered.” A great turnout of Union and The Labour Party Ireland people at today’s Connolly Commemoration in Arbour Hill. 🚩

Less than a week until our National Demonstration for Palestine, on Saturday 17th May. Join us in solidarity with our Palestinian sisters and brothers to call for an end to apartheid Israel's ongoing Nakba and genocide and to demand sanctions from our government. #FreePalestine

Comprehensive Government Plan needed on Collective Bargaining 🌹 “Minister for Enterprise must now ensure his action plan has real teeth & substantive legislative to support & increase the level of collective bargaining in Ireland” Senator Nessa Cosgrove labour.ie/news/2025/05/1…

Working from home is a real political issue Kevin Callinan “There is too much at stake for working from home to be seen as just a covid phenomenon. If we get it right, this can be central to our economic and social prosperity.” #RightToFlexibleWork irishexaminer.com/opinion/commen…

Join us for a very special panel on James Connolly. Guest Mick Lynch. 3pm, Liberty Hall Theatre Saturday 24th May. All welcome. More on tressellfestival.ie

Podcast: Building a Common Left Platform From the housing crisis to Gaza, from healthcare failures to the rise of the far-right, panelists argued the left must unite not just in opposition but a real alternative. Thanks to Mary Kelly Foy MP for chairing: open.spotify.com/episode/4OSEhz…