Connect Trade Union

We are a trade union whose origins go back to the first labour pioneers who came together to protect workers from exploitation. #ConnectTheDots

[Connect Trade Union @ConnectUnion]

Union leaders and Connect activists gather in Kilkenny for our seminar on organising and collective bargaining.

[The Robert Tressell Festival @TressellFest]

One month to go!

Facing Down the Carnival of Reaction

“Let every friend be a comrade and let every comrade be a friend.”

@ipsc48
@RMTunion
@forsa_union_ie
@irishcongress
@SIPTU
@CWU
@INMO_IRL
@fsuireland
@siptuhealth
@ifut

Tickets here: https://t.co/DbxJKWRm5g

[Connect Trade Union @ConnectUnion]

Connects’ Stephen Murphy visited Frankfurt this week, where a team of young apprentices from Ireland , Australia , New Zealand, Germany, USA, France, Spain & Canada worked to install new plumbing facilities for a local arts centre in downtown Frankfurt.

[SIPTU @SIPTU]

“He fought for the loaf of bread as no man before him had ever fought; but, with the loaf of bread, he also brought the flask of wine and the book of verse.”

Huge turnout for our #LarkinLives commemoration today in Glasnevin.

Thank you to all comrades for coming & organising.

[SIPTU @SIPTU]

Larkin had the a heart of a lion, a wonderful mind and was a great socialist.

Next Saturday morning we celebrate the life and legacy of the Larkin's in Glasnevin with speeches and special performances. All welcome.

Here's the late, great Jer O'Leary performing as Big Jim.

[Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) @irishcongress]

Trade union pillar all set for today’s @ipsc48 march #Sanctionsnow #FREEPALESTİNE #PassTheOTBnow

[IPSC @ipsc48]

We need to keep coming out in solidarity with our Palestinian sisters and brothers and to show our incoming government that they must sanction Israel for its genocidal crimes against them. See you on the 25th, all out! #FreePalestine #SanctionsNow

[Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) @irishcongress]

#JobFairy | 🚨 We’re hiring!

[Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) @irishcongress]

New year, new job? Come work with us!

🗣️Communications & Digital Media Officer

🔗 Job details: https://t.co/abpWR0mvZ7
📅 Closing date: 31 January
🔁 Please share

[The Robert Tressell Festival @TressellFest]

Best wishes to Mick Lynch, Connollyite, union leader and champion of the working class on his well earned retirement.

@RMTunion is a union that leads the way and will always inspire.

Go Raibh Maith Agat Mick.

[Labour Trade Unionists @Labour_TU]

Full episode available on Spotify here:

Features contributions from @marie_sherlock, @AlisonGilliland, Greg Ennis (@SIPTU) and Paddy Kavanagh (@ConnectUnion)

https://t.co/Fl0FP026l3

[Connect Trade Union @ConnectUnion]

In 2025, there will be more pay rises for Connect members. Mechanical workers will see an increase for 10 year service. We'll have increases for apprentices, for training allowances and for the hourly rates of pay.

And we will be negotiating again for increases for electricians.

[Connect Trade Union @ConnectUnion]

As 2024 concludes, we look back on a successful year for our union. One when we fought consistently for our members and for workers our members and for workers in Ireland.

2025 will be no different. Nollaig shona daoibh.

Happy Christmas one and all.

[Connect Trade Union @ConnectUnion]

Connect YOUR VOTE #GE24 🗳️

💶 A fair deal for apprentices
🏡 State-led house building
🇵🇸 To end the Gaza Genocide

#Election2024

[Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) @irishcongress]

This Saturday November 9 @ipsc48 are hosting National March for #Palestine 🇵🇸 Join the Trade Union bloc outside @MandateTU on Cavendish Row from 12:45pm & let’s make this one the biggest solidarity marches ever in Ireland. No silence in face of #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine

[SIPTU @SIPTU]

🚨NEW VIDEO: Union busting happens when employers target workers who try to demand better at work.

It’s time for a new law to #StopUnionBusting ‼️

[Connect Trade Union @ConnectUnion]

Up the health workers!

@forsa_union_ie @INMO_IRL @SIPTU

[SIPTU @SIPTU]

►VIDEO: ❝ The more staff we have the better service we can deliver. That's why we work in health care because we want to help patients, do a good job and we need the tools to do it. - Diarmuid Healy, Radiographer.

[Connect Trade Union @ConnectUnion]

Strike action by engineers at Meta data centre deferred via @RTENews

We must be clear, this dispute concerns the failure of Meta to engage under the auspices of the State's industrial relations machinery to resolve matters of great concern to our members https://t.co/gzgRMrdjP8

[NERI @NERI_research]

The NERI Post Budget 2025 Analysis takes place on Wednesday 9 October at 15:30 in @irishcongress Rory O'Farrell @r_o_farrell Susanne Rogers @SocialJusticeI & Michael Taft @notesonthefront will present. Seminar details - https://t.co/UpMsuoT4DF #Budget25

[Connect Trade Union @ConnectUnion]

Apprentices go first.
Apprentices go free.

If you’re an apprentice, or have a son, a daughter, niece, nephew, grandson or granddaughter or friend who is serving out a craft apprenticeship make sure to tell them to join #JoinAUNION

Together we are stronger!