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PILOTS working for Ryanair in Ireland are set to strike next week in a dispute over trade union recognition.
Members of the Irish Airline Pilots Association (Ialpa) - part of the Impact trade union - are taking action in a bid for their union to negotiate over pay rather than Ryanair-imposed employee forums.
The airline says it will "face down" the strike and claims to have offered pilots a 20 per cent pay deal.
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
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LAURA DAVISON traces how Murdoch’s mass sackings, political deals and legal loopholes shattered collective bargaining 40 years ago – and how persistent NUJ organising, landmark court victories and new employment rights legislation are finally challenging that legacy
A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
