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The 2009 data shows for the first time definitively that there is a “deliberate exploitation of Irish workers.” In 2008, a construction company in Perth, Australia was slapped with the largest fine ever for violations of the Workplace ...
May 25, 2012 at 22:23 | Source: Irish Central
KEEN to escape the gloom of their country's struggling economy, Irish workers are flocking to Western Australia and securing work on the back of the resources boom. "You are seeing an upsurge; the numbers are big," Ireland's ambassador to Australia, Noel ...
May 15, 2012 at 13:59 | Source: The Australian
Australian police have ordered a crackdown on the drunken Irish workers causing chaos in the Western city of Perth. Government officials have even threatened to deport the Irish after a series of violent incidents involving drunken revellers.
May 13, 2012 at 13:04 | Source: Irish Central
As Ireland’s referendum on the European Union (EU) fiscal treaty approaches, parties on both sides of the campaign are showing their readiness to deepen the attacks on working people. With the vote scheduled for May 31, the outcome remains uncertain ...
May 14, 2012 at 03:52 | Source: World Socialist Web Site
In July 1911, the parliamentary committee of the ITUC sent a deputation to the chancellor of the exchequer, Lloyd George, seeking changes in the new National Insurance Act to include medical benefits for Irish workers. Congress had met a few weeks earlier ...
May 25, 2012 at 23:20 | Source: Irish Times
A NEW flux of Irish construction workers to Australia is likely with news that the country will open its booming natural resources to short- term foreign workers for the first time in order to ease labour shortages, Kilkenny-based Visa First has said.
May 26, 2012 at 02:55 | Source: Independent
Staff at the former Vita Cortex plant in Cork are calling on the Government to change company law, to give more protection to workers. It comes as the group of 23 former employees at the foam manufacturing factory in Ballyphehane bring to an end their five ...
May 24, 2012 at 06:25 | Source: Irish Examiner
"Through his leadership and dedication to working families here and the United States, Mr. O'Sullivan has demonstrated a true commitment to the cause of Irish freedom," said Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams. "In his everyday work to promote workers' rights ...
May 22, 2012 at 23:52 | Source: YAHOO!
With multinationals employing roughly one-third of Irish workers, and accounting for more than three-fourths of Irish exports, these are indispensable in Ireland’s economic recovery. Third, if not ratifying the treaty, Ireland would not have ...
May 22, 2012 at 09:55 | Source: FXStreet.com
But no action was ever taken, or even proposed, by the union. Instead, they directed the workers to focus their efforts on fruitless protests at the local offices of IBEC, the Irish employers’ organisation, as well as protest stunts at the home of Vita ...
May 24, 2012 at 04:38 | Source: World Socialist Web Site