[Press statement by TEEU]
February 28th, 2010,
A number of media outlets persist in describing the dispute between the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union and Green Isle Foods in Naas as being about inappropriate emails.
This is not the case.

[Press statement, TEEU]
The President of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Jack O’Connor and General Secretary David Begg, will both be speaking at the Rally in support of the Green Isle Foods workers and hunger strikers in Naas today (Saturday, February 27th). It is being organised by the Kildare Council of Trade Unions.
It will assemble [...]

“All euro area members must conduct sound national policies in line with the agreed rules”.
This was the opening line in a statement from EU heads of government made in Brussels on 11 February. The statement was about Greece and it welcomed the austerity measures being introduced by the errant EU member in an attempt to [...]

Don’t Call Me Scarface!!
Si, is the very lovely late actress Vanessa Redgrave, who I think was die last week because I see a tribute to her on the BIFTAS. Here in this picture she is also dying, but just pretend dying, in the role of the socialite Isadora Dunkin, who was invent not just the [...]

Profitable companies are using the current economic crisis to weaken terms and conditions of employment and drive down wages of some of the countries lowest paid workers according to a new report published by Mandate.
‘Milking The Recession‘, launched by the retail sector trade union earlier this month claims that there is “an aggressive and determined” [...]

A European country that scapegoats a Semitic people, persecutes defenders of human rights by stripping them of employment, and denies freedom of speech to Jews: surely a description of Germany during the Third Reich?
Yes, but unfortunately also a description of Germany at the outset of the 21st century.
In the wake of German Chancellor Merkel’s craven speech [...]

There is probably no one who really believes that NAMA will succeed in its core mission - freeing up credit for the economy. I doubt that even the Minister’s scriptwriters really believe it. Is there anyone out there who believes it? I thought so.
Whatever about the long-term fortunes of the banking sector there is no [...]

Treating injuries miles from the ER is an essential skill, but you don’t need to be a doctor, surgeon, nurse, paediatrician, obstetric gynaecologist, or even a plain old voyeur to learn what it takes to survive in the wild. Brad Chilterns is the founder of Outdoor Medicine, which specializes in teaching underedumacated back-country folk and [...]