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2 days ago · Battles/wars. Easter Rising. James Connolly ( Irish: Séamas Ó Conghaile; [1] 5 June 1868 – 12 May 1916) was an Irish republican, socialist, and trade union leader, executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland. He remains an important figure both for the Irish labour movement and for Irish republicanism. He ...
3 days ago · Unionism in Ireland is a political tradition that professes loyalty to the crown of the United Kingdom and to the union it represents with England, Scotland and Wales. The overwhelming sentiment of Ireland's Protestant minority, unionism mobilised in the decades following Catholic Emancipation in 1829 to oppose restoration of a separate Irish ...
3 days ago · Group 15 brought together unions of state and local authority workers. However, the Trade Union Act 1927 banned state employees from joining the TUC, leaving the group dominated by the National Union of Public Employees (NUPE), Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers' Union (MHIWU), National Union of County Officers and Fire Brigades Union (FBU).
2 days ago · There is only one legally recognised trade union, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. The ACFTU is a national organisation closely affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party and is mandated to represent the interests of workers in China. Margaret Thatcher significantly reduced the influence and power of trade unions in Great Britain.
5 days ago · A united Ireland is 'inevitable' - DUP founding member. May 1, 2024, 11:05 PM ET (BBC) Assisted dying: Sinn Féin and SDLP would consider change to law. Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), unionist political party in Northern Ireland. The DUP was cofounded by Ian Paisley, who led it from 1971 to 2008.
1 day ago · European Union (EU), international organization comprising 27 European countries and governing common economic, social, and security policies. The EU was created by the Maastricht Treaty, which entered into force on November 1, 1993. The EU’s common currency is the euro. Learn more about the EU in this article.
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May 15, 2024 · The European trade movement, under the auspices of the European Trade Union Confederation, met with the Ukrainian trade union movement represented by FPU and KPU on 23 April 2024 in Lublin, Poland in the framework of the Trade Union Summit for Ukraine. Read the declaration here. See what happened at the latest Congress.
