Related Research Articles
SIPTU is Ireland's largest trade union, with around 200,000 members. Most of these members are in the Republic of Ireland, although the union does have a Northern Ireland District Committee. Its head office, Liberty Hall, is in Dublin, and the union has five industrial divisions, three in the private sector and two in the public sector. SIPTU is affiliated to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions
James Larkin, sometimes known as Jim Larkin or Big Jim, was an Irish republican, socialist and trade union leader. He was one of the founders of the Irish Labour Party along with James Connolly and William O'Brien, and later the founder of the Irish Worker League, as well as the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU) and the Workers' Union of Ireland. Along with Connolly and Jack White, he was also a founder of the Irish Citizen Army. Larkin was a leading figure in the Syndicalist movement.
The Dublin lock-out was a major industrial dispute between approximately 20,000 workers and 300 employers that took place in Ireland's capital and largest city, Dublin. The dispute, lasting from 26 August 1913 to 18 January 1914, is often viewed as the most severe and significant industrial dispute in Irish history. Central to the dispute was the workers' right to unionise.
The Irish Transport and General Workers Union (ITGWU) was a trade union representing workers, initially mainly labourers, in Ireland.
The Workers' Union of Ireland (WUI), later the Federated Workers' Union of Ireland, was an Irish trade union formed in 1924. In 1990, it merged with the Irish Transport and General Workers Union to form the Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union (SIPTU).
John F. Carroll was an Irish trade union leader. He was vice-president of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU) from 1969 to 1981, when he became the union's president until its merger in 1990 with the Federated Workers' Union of Ireland to form the new Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union (SIPTU).
Matthew Merrigan was an Irish socialist and trade unionist from Dublin, known for his catchphrase "Profits are wages that have not been distributed yet."
Andy Barr was an Irish communist and trade unionist.
Stephen McGonagle was a Northern Irish and Irish trade unionist.
John Conroy was an Irish trade union leader.
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions, formed in 1959 by the merger of the Irish Trades Union Congress and the Congress of Irish Unions, is a national trade union centre, the umbrella organisation to which trade unions in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland affiliate.
Frank Purcell was an Irish politician and trade union official. He served as General Secretary of the ITGWU in 1948. He was an Independent member of Seanad Éireann from 1954 to 1960. He was first elected to the 8th Seanad in 1954 by the Labour Panel. He was re-elected at the 1957 election but died in office in 1960. Edward Browne was elected to fill the vacancy.
William A. Attley is a former Irish trade unionist and football referee.
Jimmy Somers is an Irish trade unionist.
Patrick Thomas Daly, known as P. T. Daly was an Irish trade unionist and politician.
Patricia King is an Irish trade unionist.
Harold O'Sullivan was an Irish trade union leader and local historian.
John McDonnell is an Irish former trade union leader.
Sheila Conroy was an Irish trade union leader and activist. She was the first women elected to the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union's national executive committee and in 1976 she became chair of the RTÉ Authority, making her the first woman to chair an Irish semi-state body.
Kevin Callinan is an Irish trade unionist.
References
- ↑ Mary Raftery, ITGWU Establishment Rules , 1 July 1983
- ↑ Martin Fitzpatrick, "Billy Attley", Irish Independent , 6 June 2004
- ↑ Gerald Flynn, "Tough union battle to replace Attley", Irish Independent , 5 March 1998
- ↑ "ICTU Constitution and Standing Orders", p.37