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Unite workers hold a protest outside Murphy Construction Group's headquarters in Newbridge Co. Kildare with "Scabby", a giant inflatable rat signifying that Murphy had taken an anti-trade union action and holding up banners saying "Murphy - treat your workers with respect"

Unite Members Defend Dismissed workers.

A protest by Unite members was held at the Kildare headquarters of Murphy Group the construction engineering company following the dismissal of 4 workers for union activity

Free FFP2 masks for teachers & other workers

People Before Profit launch bill for teachers & other workers to be given free FFP2 masks, like TDs already get. Prof Orla Hegarty tells an oireachtas committee that wearing cloth & surgical masks for an airborne virus is like ‘wearing flip flops on a building site’

People Before Profit members holding a stall on the need to raise the minimum wage to tackle rising living costs.

An unlivable minimum wage is just state-sanctioned poverty.

PBP propose minimum wage of €15 an hour to provide a ‘lasting dividend to frontline workers’. The rumoured increase of the Minimum wage to €10.50 in tomorrow’s budget has been criticised as “totally inadequate” and amount to “a continuation of state-sanctioned poverty”by Limerick People Before Profit spokesperson Ruairí Fahy as Ireland has the second highest levels of low wage workers in the OECD with 23% of workers earning less than 2 thirds of the median wage, less than €12 an hour.