Community workers protest over privatisation threat
Members of the SIPTU and IMPACT trade unions joined a protest outside the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government on 18 February in opposition to the Department’s drive to privatise community social inclusion programmes. They were also protesting over the refusal of the Department to accept a Labour Court recommendation to negotiate with community workers and their union representatives concerning changes to their conditions of employment and threatened job losses. [Read more at > SIPTU->http://www.siptu.ie/media/pressreleases2015/fullstory_18858_en.html] [And at > IMPACT-