Responding to the case of Louise Bayliss whose contract at the Irish Advocacy Network will not be renewed because of her role in exposing the mistreatment of psychiatric patients in the care of the HSE Joe Higgins TD said: “There has been no delivery yet on whistleblowing legislation. Indeed the Labour Party presented such legislation [...]
Press Statement: Case of Louise Bayliss intended to discourage whistleblowing
On January - 24 - 2012
Video: Joe Higgins urges Minister to ensure La Senza workers’ entitlements are met
On January - 12 - 2012
I welcome the representatives of the La Senza workers to the Visitors’ Gallery and I am in solidarity with the Vita Cortex workers suffering from similar high-handed disgusting treatment. It is breathtaking in its arrogance and disrespect towards the up to 120 mainly female workers in the La Senza lingerie stores in Dublin and Cork [...]
Statement of support from Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins for the striking EBS workers
On December - 20 - 2011
Responding to the day of strike action taken by EBS workers Joe Higgins TD said: “I and my party colleagues support the action taken by the EBS workers 100%. A clear distinction must be made between the obscene rewards still given to the senior management in Ireland’s banks and the hard won pay and conditions [...]
Video: Joe Higgins urges Minister Noonan to reverse decision not to honour EBS workers contract obligations
On December - 19 - 2011
I am glad the Minister for Finance is in the Chamber. What we would like to have with him today is a quiet measured conversation about the issue I raise which concerns 370 workers at EBS Limited, now merged with Allied Irish Banks. These are very low-paid and middle-income workers. They are coal-face workers, not [...]
Oppose the NBRU’s collusion with Dublin Bus management to sack trade unionists
On March - 24 - 2010
The sacking of shop steward Eugene McDonagh by Dublin Bus management and the simultaneous suspension of him by his union, the NBRU, from the executive to which he was democratically elected represents a joint management/union bureaucracy drive to destroy effective representation for bus workers in Harristown garage. It comes on the back of a campaign [...]
Joe Higgins: After Lisbon Yes result – what does it mean?
On October - 12 - 2009
The Irish people were showered with promises of economic recovery, investment and jobs if they voted ‘Yes’ to the Lisbon Treaty. These lavish promises will come back to haunt the current Government in particular. However, it wasn’t just the government – whose survival depended on the outcome of the vote – that was involved. Fine [...]
Speech in Euro Parliament on Lisbon Result & Aer Lingus Job Cuts
On October - 8 - 2009
Yesterday Joe Higgins spoke in the European Parliament, reacting to the Lisbon result and raising the disgusting decision by Aer Lingus to sack 700 employees. Here is the video and transcript of his speech. Chairman, I opposed the Lisbon referendum from a left and socialist perspective and reject the intervention of xenophobes and right wing [...]
