Water Service Workers Ireland

12/04/2026

Fair play to the peaceful protesters standing up and speaking out.
These are not troublemakers these are the hard-working people of Ireland. The same people who get up early, go to work, pay their taxes, and keep this country running.

They shouldn’t have to protest just to be heard, but they’ve been pushed to this point because the bodies that are supposed to represent them simply are not doing their job.

When people feel ignored for long enough, they will take a stand. That’s exactly what’s happening now.

What’s even more disappointing is the silence from the unions.
Where are and the major unions like Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation - INMO Unite the Union, Republic of Ireland Mandate Trade Union. As for they have buried there head in the sand they are afraid to go against government. They are like the AND .

This cost of living crisis especially fuel and energy costs is one of the biggest challenges facing workers in decades. Yet there is no real leadership, no mass organisation, no coordinated days of protest coming from those who are supposed to lead workers.

Unions should be mobilising. They should be organising workers across the country. They should be leading from the front, not staying quiet while people struggle to afford the basics.

And the Government’s response has made things worse. Instead of listening, they have dismissed, criticised, and in some cases spoken about ordinary working people with clear contempt. The language used around these protests has been completely out of touch with the reality people are facing every day.

Peaceful protesters are not the problem. The problem is a Government that refuses to act while people are being squeezed from every direction.

If not now, then when?
Workers are already taking a stand. It’s time for the unions to do the same and it’s time for the Government to start listening.

Because people will remember all of this at the next election.

09/04/2026

Irish Water was set up so the establishment could prepare for eventual privatisation. Put water back in hands of local authorities. We need to put workers in driving seat of a planned economy where this waste never happens!

31/03/2026

Marie4EC

29/03/2026

Scottish Unite Branch members get text with wrong candidates listed as nominees!! After a complaint this was corrected with an apology. Has this happened anywhere else?

26/03/2026

Ballots for the EC elections will be arriving over the next few days.

This is the time. Do you want your voice to matter? To be taken seriously? To have accountability and transparency?

Take the time to read through the information, consider the issues that matter most to you, how to get your union back in the hands of the members and post your vote asap.

Every ballot truly counts, and taking part is your right as a paying Unite member.

I commit to fighting to restore u in democracy and accountability, always putting members first. Vote for Marie Casey as your Ireland Rep on the EC and vote for other candidates on the other panels.

25/03/2026

Marie4EC has stood shoulder to shoulder with Water Service Workers Ireland when it mattered most. She didn’t just speak in support she showed up, joining us on the picket lines and backing our fight every step of the way.

At a time when many felt unheard, Marie has been a consistent voice for fairness, respect, and proper engagement. She understands the real concerns of workers and has never shied away from standing up for what’s right.

A true advocate, a fighter for equality, and a champion of democracy within our union.

If you want strong, principled leadership that stands with members support Marie Casey in the upcoming Unite Executive Council elections.

11/03/2026

Local Authority Water Services workers stand in full solidarity with the National Ambulance Service workers who are being balloted for industrial action by Unite the Union.

Paramedics, EMTs and ambulance staff carry out vital frontline work every day, often in very challenging circumstances. They deserve fair recognition and respect for the essential service they provide to communities across Ireland.

From Water Services workers to ambulance workers you have our support.

Solidarity. ✊

National Ambulance Service: Ballot continuing despite resolution of appointment and transfer issues

👉 Unite slams six-year delay in implementing ‘Roles and Responsibilities Review’ recommendations
👉 Management must ditch piecemeal approach and address all outstanding issues

Unite, which represents members working for the National Ambulance Service, today (Wednesday) welcomed confirmation by NAS management yesterday that Year 3 graduate paramedics will be offered permanent appointments and that management will adhere to the previously agreed transfer policy. This decision follows engagement with management by the Irish Ambulance Representative Council comprising Unite and Siptu.

Notwithstanding progress on the appointment and transfer issues, however, Unite said that it is continuing to ballot members for industrial action on foot of the ongoing failure to implement the 2020 ‘Roles and Responsibilities Review’. The ballot is set to conclude at the end of March.

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16/02/2026

💧 Our Water, Our Concern 💧

Communities rely on safe, clean water every day. When services fail, communication is poor, or concerns are ignored, it’s not just an internal issue it affects our health and trust.

Right now, accountability is missing. When Local councillors or TDs contact Uisce Éireann Irish Water they are often fibbed of or ignored. Local reps and citizens are forced to contact water service staff directly because reaching out to Uisce Éireann is often a waste of time. That’s a huge red flag for communities that depend on clear, reliable information about their water.

This isn’t about blame. It’s about standards. Every community deserves water services that are:

Reliable
Transparent
Professionally managed
Accountable

We deserve clear answers, real responsibility, and genuine improvements because speaking up is about protecting our communities, not being negative.

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Uisce Éireann has been accused of not being on top of their brief at a community engagement meeting about the planned pipeline from the Shannon to Dublin. If approved by An Coimisiún Pleanala the multi-billion Euro project would take up to 350 million litres of water – or 2% of the flow – each...

12/11/2025

Statement on SIPTU and there spin and lies.

What about the thousands of union members real frontline water workers whose democratic right to vote on a life-changing document was denied? Instead, twelve people decided the future of thousands.

SIPTU told everyone they held meetings “all around the country” to justify their actions, but that was a lie ask the workers themselves. The proof is out there in the videos, the posts, and the voice recordings from Water Service Workers Ireland. Those recordings show clearly that members were misled, excluded, and ignored.

Any GOOD union member would insist that all members get a vote. Any GENUINE union would demand that every worker has a say. And no decent negotiation committee would ever sign off on an agreement knowing the red-line issues were not met something SIPTU themselves admitted.

What we’re seeing here from THE FORMER WATER SERVICE Stephen Kelly is exactly what has torn trust apart in the water services. Those who sat across the table from management signed off on a deal that thousands of ordinary workers never got to vote on. They made decisions that changed people’s lives and then walked away and while everyone else was left to live with the fallout.

We were told repeatedly there would be no deal without a referendum being held.. This promise being broken lead to the then sector committee chairman Frank Lee resigning he's postion and calling Siptu leadership out for not securing the promises they made to members.

Real unionism means standing shoulder to shoulder, not cutting deals behind closed doors and calling it “representation.”
It’s easy to talk about loyalty now, but the traitors are the ones who turned their backs on their fellow workers, who refused them a democratic say on their own future, and who sold out the red-line issues they promised to protect.

Now Stephen Kelly cries about online criticism, yet ignore the real betrayal that caused it. Workers were left in limbo, their families uncertain about their futures, while a handful made decisions behind closed doors. That’s not representation that’s dictatorship in a union badge.

Stephen talks about there real gripe was not getting a vote on the framework document. Of course it is we are in a union for democracy not a dictatorship we want our voice to be listen to we want our say on life changing decsions that the least any member should get.

And let’s talk about the word “traitor”. A traitor isn’t the worker standing up for fairness it’s the person who turns their back on colleagues, who sells out their own colleagues, who refuses them a say in their future. A traitor is someone who calls themselves a unionist while doing management’s work for them.

We will be sharing over the next few days the proof the recordings, the documents, and the voices of workers across Ireland that show the truth about how SIPTU handled this deal and lied to their members. The very Lies the sector committee tried to helped SIPTU cover up.

Double standards run deep the same union that says it protects its members had officials recorded threatening to “break individual legs” and “throw them in the River Lee.” That’s the reality workers faced while fighting for honesty and democracy from there "union".

The Water Service Workers Ireland page has shown the real story protests across the country, experienced council workers walking away from the service they built, and families left anxious and angry.

We’re not going away. We’re standing up.
Because workers deserve truth, respect, and a union that remembers who it’s meant to serve its members, not the government and employers

Monaghan GAA

07/11/2025

💧 The Truth About Uisce Éireann — and Why Council Water Workers Won’t Be Fooled

So Uisce Éireann were in front of the Public Accounts Committee this week trying to justify paying out €13 million in bonuses, claiming it was all about “performance” and “retaining talent.”

Let’s be honest this is the same company that still loses nearly 40% ( probably a lot more they haven't a clue what they are losing)of treated water through leaks, can’t manage basic operations, and shuts off water to hospitals by mistake. But sure, that’s “performance,” right?

What’s worse is the spin. They told PAC that everything is running smoothly under their framework with the local authorities but that’s just not true.

Local authority water workers the people who actually keep the taps running know the system inside out. They’ve seen how Uisce Éireann Irish Water operates, and they’ve seen the lack of experience, the management chaos, and the box-ticking culture.

Now they’re being pushed, pressured, and blamed while Uisce Éireann hands out bonuses to nearly 93% of staff! How can nearly everyone get a “performance” award in a company that’s constantly missing its own targets?

And we’re supposed to trust them to take over completely? No wonder so many council workers are refusing to move across. They don’t want to be part of a system that’s all about spin, PR and pay-outs not service, safety or accountability.

Maybe before paying themselves more “retention” bonuses, Uisce Éireann should try retaining some more water in the system.

05/11/2025

Uisce Éireann Irish Water sent their crew out night time flushing, they were in an area behind the Cork University Hospital, they were closing valves flushing but they closed the main valve which was feeding water into the hospital meaning that the hospital had NO WATER going into it.
It was only when the hospital maintenance made phone calls that the issue was identified and eventually resolved.

It was only by luck that this happened in the middle of the night when there isn’t a very high demand for water, if this had happened at daytime there would have been mayhem because the hospital wouldn’t have had water and you could potentially have had surgeries cancelled at the very least.

When local authority water workers talk about the lack of knowledge and experience in Irish water this example is exactly what we are talking about.