Union Renewal

Union Renewal is anchored in the core values of trade unionism: solidarity, a belief in the common good, and progressive political intervention. 🇵🇸🇮🇪

[RMT @RMTunion]

This week, it's the RMT AGM from Liverpool from where we will be posting a selection of videos.
Here's RMT General Secretary, Eddie Dempsey explaining the importance of our AGM to our fighting, democratic union.
Unity Is Strength

[The Robert Tressell Festival @TressellFest]

Less than TWO weeks to go until the Tressell Festival in the RDS.

Political panel: What’s next for the Left?

@MaryLouMcDonald | @ivanabacik | @LauraPidcock | @sineadgibney | @RuthCoppingerSP

Tickets here: https://t.co/7x5AfKjsC5

[DCTU @DCTU_tweets]

See you all tonight at 6.30pm!

May Day, Workers Day!
Time to make the Bosses pay!

#IWD2026
#Internationalworkersday

[DCTU @DCTU_tweets]

Well said!

All out for May Day! Feet on the street, 6.30pm Parnell Sq.

We can’t afford to live!

[Union Renewal @UnionRenewal]

#NewProfilePic

[The Robert Tressell Festival @TressellFest]

James Connolly: Radical or Redundant?

#TressellFest 3pm on Saturday 24th May in Liberty Hall theatre, Dublin.

Mick Lynch
Liz Gillis
Brian Hanley
Adrian Kane

Tickets on sale now: https://t.co/dhuM3x06SJ

[DCTU @DCTU_tweets]

Mark your diaries! Join us for our annual Mayday March & Rally on Thursday 1st May. Assemble from 6.30pm at the Garden of Remembrance, marching at 7pm to Liberty Hall for the rally. We’ve a great lineup of speakers.

Come one, come all. We have a world to win!

Please share!

[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

[The Robert Tressell Festival @TressellFest]

“When we harness what we have, there’s nothing we can’t do.”

@irishcongress General Secretary @owenreidy with some inspiring words about the importance of trade unions at #TressellFest last year.

Early bird tickets for 2025, on sale in less than a month!

Saturday 8th March.

[IFUT @ifut]

Fontaines DC back former lecturers as row over pay cuts and redundancies at BIMM music school escalates https://t.co/zfUFI6jYrT

[IFUT @ifut]

Teachers threaten to strike at Dublin music college that spawned Fontaines DC https://t.co/hq4ZEcGT6U

[SIPTU @SIPTU]

A huge turnout for the @ipsc48 march for Palestine in Dublin today.

Well done to the organisers. 🇵🇸 🇮🇪

We need to keep up the pressure!

Government cannot break election promises to pass the Occupied Territories Bill.

#SolidarityIsAVerb #FreePalestine

[SIPTU @SIPTU]

With a €23.7bn surplus, why are we facing:

🏠 Record house prices
🏥 Kids waiting 3 YEARS for scoliosis surgery
🚆 Failing public transport

The Left must work together to hold Govt to account, call out Govt supporters on opposition benches and demand this surplus is used wisely.

[Donal Fallon @fallon_donal]

Jer O'Leary is in this. What a beloved and missed part of Dublin he is and always will be. 🫡

Not sure who the babyfaced lad is but I hope he never shaves....

[Michael Taft @notesonthefront]

If we are such a ‘rich country’, why aren’t a lot of people feeling it? Maybe its because we’re actually not all that 'rich' by European standards. Irish household income is below the EU average and would need to rise by over 10% to reach Euro norms. https://t.co/ehwLdFzDDa

[SIPTU @SIPTU]

To the Irish left, the Starry Plough remains an important and inspiring symbol but where did it come from?

Here historian @fallon_donal discuss its disputed origins with Union banner maker Jer O'Leary (RIP) who popularised the original Starry Plough design in the early 1970s.

[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.

[Michael Taft @notesonthefront]

Government formation talks are discussing childcare. That the top 10 childcare providers generated nearly €60 million in profits over the last five years should help focus those talks. Public provision of childcare should be the policy that emerges. https://t.co/pdZgs0Yjj9

[Paula Geraghty 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @paulageraghty]

Coming out this month, Fragments of Victory: The Contemporary Irish Left
Edited by Oisín Gilmore and David Landy. A timely book, looking forward to dissecting it!

https://t.co/ESAZ40SCJR