Labour Youth is calling for the Minister for Jobs, Mary Mitchell O’Connor, to support the Labour Party’s workers’ rights motion which is to be voted on in the Dáil this evening.  National Chairperson Grace Williams said: “Earlier today we handed in a letter to the Department of Jobs for the attention of Minister Mary Mitchell…

Worker’s Rights are at the core of what the Labour Party stands for and what the Labour movement is all about.  Only this morning I was out meeting workers in Oberstown youth detention centre who staged a four hour work stoppage to highlight safety concerns on their campus. The fight for workers’ rights goes on…

Speaking on the Labour Party Private Members Motion This motion is tabled by Labour Party deputies to ensure that the rights of Workers remain on the political agenda. We need to maintain the progress that has been made by the Government of 2011 to 2016 beginning with one of its first acts, the restoration of…

Speaking after the publication today by the Government of a list of Bills from the previous Dáil session that are to be restored to the Dáil Agenda, Labour Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin expressed his dismay at the abandoning of the Admission to Schools Bill by the Fine Gael-led Government. “The Labour Party in Government made…

 Dáil Éireann, Labour Party Motion on Protection of Employees’ Rights CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY   Ceann Comhairle, I move Motion No. 18, on behalf of the Labour Party. I am sharing time.   Ceann Comhairle, this is Labour’s first Private Members’ Time in the new Dáil. And we had no difficulty in choosing the issue we…

In January of this year, Senator Ivana Bacik proposed the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016 on behalf of the Labour Party Senators, as a private members’ bill which was allowed pass through to Second Stage by then Minister Richard Bruton. Senator Bacik’s Competition (Amendment) Bill stems from a longstanding Labour Party commitment to ensure protection of…

  Speaking after a gathering of the Social Democratic and Labour Party youth group and the Labour Party youth group in Belfast this afternoon, the joint Chairs Conal Browne and Grace Williams issued a statement calling on young people to not underestimate the importance their vote can have on June 23rd “With the referendum on…

Labour’s TDs are today introducing a motion into Dáil Eireann this week to enhance workers’ rights and increase protections for low paid workers. Brendan Howlin said: “All Labour TDs will be supporting this motion when it comes to a vote tomorrow evening. We are now urging members of the public to contact their local TDs…