Unite Community ROI

14/05/2026

HAPPENING SATURDAY: Demonstration in solidarity with the Palestinian people – assembling 1 pm Parnell Square 👇

Unite members will be meeting in the Dublin office before heading down to join the demonstration.

13/05/2026

No to Racism!

Huge thanks to artist Jim Fitzpatrick (centre of pic) who designed the banner on Unite’s Dublin offices.

The banner has become something of a Dublin landmark but had become slightly worn, and today Jim joined Unite community coordinators from across the union as well as members and staff to mark the installation of a replacement.

It may be a new banner but the message remains the same: No to Racism!

12/05/2026

Solidarity with frontline workers on strike today ✊🏻

11/05/2026

Solidarity ✊🏻

Solidarity with ambulance workers taking strike action tomorrow!

👉Resolution of dispute up to management as workers wait over six years for recognition

Unite, which represents members at the National Ambulance Service, has confirmed that members working as emergency medical technicians, paramedics, advanced paramedics, paramedic specialists and paramedic supervisors will engage in a 24-hour stoppage tomorrow from 08:00 tomorrow (Tuesday 12 May) to 08:00 on Wednesday.

Last month, Unite and Siptu members voted overwhelmingly for industrial action due to management’s ongoing failure to implement the 2020 ‘Roles and Responsibilities Review’.
The qualifications, clinical responsibilities and operational duties of ambulance personnel have expanded significantly in recent years. Despite the fact that the ‘Roles and Responsibilities Review’ recommended enhanced pay scales to reflect the growing professionalisation of the service, those recommendations have not been implemented.

In addition, a five per cent increase recommended under the Benchmarking II process has not been delivered.

Click through for full statement issued this afternoon: https://tinyurl.com/4c8zv6be

01/05/2026

Happy International Workers' Day to all our members and solidarity with workers everywhere!

Click through to read today’s statement issued by Unite’s Irish Secretary Susan Fitzgerald:

“We are putting employers on notice: Any attempts to shortchange workers will not be tolerated. Our members are determined to secure inflation-busting pay increases – at the negotiating table where possible, and on the picket line where necessary.”

Link to full statement below. Don't forget to join your union for the annual May Day March and Rally in Dublin this evening, assembling at the Garden of Remembrance at 6.30 pm and then marching to Beresford Place.

Unite members will be meeting in our Dublin offices (Middle Abbey Street) from 4 pm for a get-together with music and light refreshments before collecting flags and heading to Parnell Square.
https://tinyurl.com/4zdm95by

27/04/2026

Friday is May Day – International Workers’ Day 👇

Join your union for the annual May Day March and Rally in Dublin this coming Friday – May 1st, May Day.

Assembling at the Garden of Remembrance at 6.30 pm and then marching to Beresford Place.

Unite members will be meeting in our Dublin offices (Middle Abbey Street) from 4 pm for a get-together with music and light refreshments before collecting flags and heading to Parnell Square.

24/04/2026

The private rental market is driving people into homelessness…

22/04/2026

Northern Ireland is the most dangerous place to be a woman. 30 women have been killed by the men in their lives over the last five years. This is an issue for us all.
We need to add our union’s voice to demand: Not one more!
Unite is putting on a bus to this event from Derry/L’Derry - leaving Foyle Library, Derry at 10am, picking up at Rose Gardens, Coleraine 11am, Old Music Hall, Ballymoney 11.15am; The Pentagon, Ballymena 11.45am.
Seats are limited so to be sure book your place: contact Damien Doherty tel. 07845 029992
Be sure to join the Unite contingent on the march and wear one of our ‘Not One More’ t-shirts.
We will be meeting at the Courts, Chichester Street, Belfast at around 12.30pm ahead of march starting 1pm.
30 women killed - Not One More!

21/04/2026