NIPSA Youth set to launch their new website and Facebook page on Friday the 1st of April 2011. This is great news for NIPSA and for their young members. NIPSA Youth Chairperson, Ryan Wilson stated, "This is a positive step for NIPSA youth, the website and facebook pages will help us to communicate with young NIPSA members, giving them a
In January this year Haiti was struck by a major earthquake which killed at least 220, 000 people, injured 300,000 and left 1.5million homeless. After the earthquake the media showed international aid pouring in from the worlds’ leading countries, the US received particularly positive coverage, and sent 1,000-bed hospital ship with a
7:00 a.m. Up, showered and dressed. Damn, this is early, and oh my word- it’s not even light outside yet. See, this is what the day of a substitute teacher starts like. Up, just in case you get a phone call to teach half way across the country. According to the GTCNI, there are 808 teaching graduates in Northern Ireland. Only 678 of us are
For the first time in our history, union membership is now 50:50 men and women. Despite this women remain disproportionately represented in the types of jobs which attract low pay: i.e. temporary, part-time and casual work. And women are also dispropotionalty represented in union structures. Right across the world millions of women still work in
It may have taken a long time and involved everyone from NIPSA Branches to Stormont Ministers but the Traffic Attendant’s 14-week dispute with their employers NSL Services Group came to a successful conclusion. The members of NIPSA Branch 91 walked out in April in a row over a number of issues including pay, working conditions and the health
Recently elected as General Secretary of the NIPSA - the Public Service Alliance - Brian Campfield sees on a daily basis the difficulties faced by workers in the public sector. Here we ask him a bit more about himself and what notivates him as a Trade Unionist. When did you first join a union? What age were you and what job were you in? I first
Latest Edition Out Now!
Download ICTU Youth's Magazine
