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We need to improve working conditions and pay for carers and community workers, writes Labour’s Duncan Smith.

Community workers in Kerry are to take strike action today.Trade union SIPTU says community and care workers haven’t had a pay rise in 14 years.Workers have bee...

Care sector workers, some of whom have not seen their pay increased in 14 years, will strike tomorrow, Friday, on Leeside.

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Enable Ireland says it has taken steps to ensure strike action in Kerry tomorrow will have minimum disruption for people who use their services.Fórsa trade unio...

They provide some of our most vital services, caring for the vulnerable and maintaining our communities. Despite this thousands of workers employed in community and section 39 organisations have be left in the dire situation of being on the same rate of p...

SIPTU members in the care and community sector have committed to escalating their campaign of industrial action following a successful first wave of strikes…

Protests were held in Galway, Waterford and Dublin, calling for the first pay increase for care and community workers in 14 years.

SIPTU members protested outside the Department of Social Protection Office, Government Buildings, Cork Road, Waterford, today, Wednesday, 6th July.