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SIPTU: Government 'should be ready' for increasing Covid-19 testing capacity in meat plants
While serial Covid-19 testing has resumed in meat plants this week, trade union SIPTU is still “gravely concerned” about the...
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While serial Covid-19 testing has resumed in meat plants this week, trade union SIPTU is still “gravely concerned” about the...
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Trade union SIPTU has said that Meat Industry Ireland (MII) is “refusing to engage and negotiate” on issues relating to...
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Trade union SIPTU has said it is “appalled and extremely concerned” by the decision to postpone serial Covid-19 testing in...
Agri-Business
Trade union SIPTU has called for “immediate action” to resolve problems in the regulatory and licencing system for tree felling...
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Meat Industry Ireland (MII) has proposed a “detailed Code of Practice” with the aim of protecting workers in the meat processing...
Agri Politics
Trade union SIPTU has claimed it is aware of a meat factory worker that was told if they “self-isolated there...
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Trade union SIPTU has thrown down the gauntlet to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Covid-19 this morning, Thursday, August 13,...
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Meat industry workers operating as sole traders are a “growing phenomenon” in the Irish sector, with such workers not entitled...
Agri-Business
A number of workers at Rosderra Irish Meats left the processing factory in protest on Monday, August 10, after staff...
Agri-Business
Representatives from trade union SIPTU and Meat Industry Ireland (MII) met today to discuss tackling the problem of Covid-19 clusters...
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The spike of Covid-19 clusters in meat and food processing facilities in recent days “comes as no surprise” to trade...
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The meat industry workers’ division of trade union SIPTU has hit out at being excluded from last week’s Oireachtas Special...
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Trade union SIPTU has written to its members among meat plant workers around the country to outline its plans to...
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There have been calls for the formation of a collective taskforce of meat industry stakeholders to fight the growing problem...
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Some employers in the Irish meat processing industry took the threat of Covid-19 seriously at the beginning of the coronavirus...
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Mandatory temperature testing in meat factories around the country has been called for by one of Ireland’s largest trade unions,...
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Trade union SIPTU is calling for mandatory temperature testing for meat and dairy plant workers, as well as the mandatory...
Agri-Business
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has been called on to carry out an inspection of the Liffey Meats processing...