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IRISH political parties gave their support today to the Unite union’s demand that Carillion workers be taken on by the public-sector Housing Executive.
About 250 workers in Northern Ireland were left at risk of losing their jobs when the British-based outsourcing transnational collapsed into liquidation.
Unite has demanded that the Housing Executive, for which the Carillion employees did maintenance work, hire the workers.
A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
The independent TD’s campaign has put important issues like Irish reunification and military neutrality at the heart of the political conversation, argues SEAN MacBRADAIGH
