The National Treatment Purchase Fund is part of the problem of privatisation of our health service. We should all be very concerned that it continues to be proposed as the answer to all that ails the health service. www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...

Looking forward to the debate amongst our health members over the next couple of days here in Letterkenny #ForsaHealth

I find so much of the narrative around working from home (+supposed need to bring everyone back to the office) lazy. Bad mgmt of WFH is not a reason to stop WFH. Great to see @kcallinan60.bsky.social writing about the importance of WFH in Examiner today www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

🗳️Ballot is open for Community & Voluntary sector workers. You have proposed pay increases of 9.25%. - 2.25% backdated to Oct '24 - 1% in April '25 - 2% in Nov '25 - 2% in April '26 - 2% in Oct '26 FAQs linked below, and check your emails to vote www.forsa.ie/faqs-2025-co...

Wondering how #health systems keep running despite severe staff shortages? 👉🏾 By excessive overtime of existing staff! 1️⃣ in 3️⃣ health workers regularly work during their free time. This #WorldHealthDay, EPSU puts the spotlight on #overtime. Read our policy briefing👇🏾 bit.ly/epsu_overtime

Your April Fools' Day reminder that trickle-down economics is the greatest trick of all. It's nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich corporations and the super-rich at your expense. Don't fall for it.

Urgent update: Industrial action across the HSE suspended Read more below www.forsa.ie/healthcare-u...

Frances Black on the #latelate standing strong on Palestine 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

#JobFairy #SpéirGorm Want to work for workers? Are you energetic, motivated, and empathetic with organising and campaigning skills? We’re recruiting Assistant Industrial Officers for Dublin and regional offices. Deadline: Noon 7 May forsa.bamboohr.com/careers/42?s...

Today the PNA. Tomorrow the WRC. Monday - Industrial Action due to commence. #CodeRed #StaffOurServices www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

I mean what a match! An exciting season for the rebels! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Hey everyone guess what? IT'S OUR BIRTHDAY! We're eight years old today. And we've defied all odds against us and are still here to celebrate, educate and maybe eat some cake.

The Kabin Krew leading the Cork Parade ❤️😍☘️

Monday March 31st - members of @forsatradeunion.bsky.social will commence Industrial Action in the HSE. Time to #JoinAUnion #JoinFórsa to make sure you are protected during this dispute. www.forsa.ie/hse-industri...

💔Five years after COVID-19 exposed the cracks in Europe’s health and care systems, what have policymakers learned? 💰Cuts and deregulation threaten to repeat past failures. Strong public services aren’t a luxury - they’re the foundation of a resilient Europe. We need investment, not austerity.

Will be joining @kierancuddihy.bsky.social at 6pm today to reflect on COVID and the #BetterMaternityCare campaign 📻 🎙️

Almost 10 years ago, IMPACT (now @forsatradeunion.bsky.social) members working in the Community and Voluntary Sector launched their campaign for pay restoration following the 2008 crash which saw their pay and pay linkages decimated. (1/2)

We can't all be wrong! #ServicesAreSuffering #SpeirGorm Psychiatric Nurses Association gives notice to HSE of industrial action due to staffing shortages jrnl.ie/6645512

📢 @forsatradeunion.bsky.social Health Members should check their emails. Notice of Industrial Action has now been served to the HSE and all Section 38 hospitals 📢 Important to note that only @forsatradeunion.bsky.social members are protected during this industrial action. #JoinFórsa

Happy #InternationalWomensDay to all the women of #SpeirGorm and beyond.

🚨Industrial Action across the HSE Fórsa members will serve 3 weeks’ notice on Monday 10 March. This is in response to the Pay & Numbers Strategy, which has pushed the health service to the brink. Our colleagues in INMO will also serve notice. Members, check emails for info.

@forsatradeunion.bsky.social working in the Community and Voluntary sector want the govt to stay true to their election promises. Let's see what the day brings 🧐 #JoinFórsa #JoinAUnion #SpéirGorm

Listen to your children read. Read to your children. Read alongside your children. Take them to libraries. Talk about what reading means to you & what it can unlock. Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word. #WorldBookDay

Poor by Katrina O Sullivan is an absolute must read ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An utterly devastating read that should be read by every politician, policy maker and educator. #SpeirGorm #BookSky

#JobFairy Are you highly organised and enthusiastic? Want to help build union membership? We’re recruiting a Membership Development Officer for Retired Members. Deadline for applications is 5pm on Thursday, 27 March. Early application is encouraged! forsa.bamboohr.com/careers/41?s...

I am calling on the Government to ban cruel Greyhound racing. Will you do the same? my.uplift.ie/petitions/ba...

💚Is é Seachtain na Gaeilge 2025!💚 Fórsa - Force Ceardchumann - Trade union Ceardchumannaí - Trade unionist Stailc - Strike Cearta oibrithe - Workers’ rights Dlúthpháirtíocht - Solidarity Dul isteach i gceardchumann - Join a trade union! #SpéirGorm @snagaeilge.bsky.social

'One size does not fit all'. Really important seminar today on gender in occupational health & safety. Research on this issue has historically been overlooked. But tides are changing with leadership from women in unions, fighting to ensure safety from accidents, violence, harassment & other risks.

Everyone leaving Twitter yeah?

Great to see the @uplift-ireland.bsky.social have removed the option to share on X. All self respecting organisations should do likewise. There will never be a mass exodus until news orgs and large influencers stop using it. Allow it to be a far right echo chamber. It will eat itself alive.

No Shamrock for Trump on St. Patrick's Day in March 2025. #NotInMyName my.uplift.ie/petitions/sh...

Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works?

Follow the money.

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

One of the privileges of leading in a membership organisation is getting to meet some of the 32,000 health members of @forsatradeunion.bsky.social at local branch AGMs. Love this cover from the Kilkenny Health and Local Government Branch 💪🏻💚

Platform and analyse why women are voting like this, they’re already doing it while nobody is looking or caring and their male peers are hissing hate and violence at them. Yet they get all the platforming analysis and exploration, it’s so draining and angering.

The HSE are spending far more on private for profit consultancy firms while stopping the direct employment of frontline workers. Not a peep in the papers about it 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐 #SpeirGorm #IrishJourno www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

@echolive.bsky.social the impact of the HSE Pay and Numbers "Strategy" An utterly chaotic approach to workforce planning. This stat is replicated across dietetic services and many others. #ServicesAreSuffering #JoinAUnion #JoinFórsa @forsatradeunion.bsky.social

Glad that common sense and a commitment to previous agreements made in good faith prevailed today @forsatradeunion.bsky.social #JoinAUnion #JoinFórsa #SpeirGorm www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/...

Will be joining Pat Kenny on @newstalkfm.bsky.social this morning to talk about *the lack of* any proposals from the HSE regarding the Extended Working Day / Week. Tune in 📻 @forsatradeunion.bsky.social #JoinAUnion #SpeirGorm #TeamHSCP

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Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

I send solidarity from @forsatradeunion.bsky.social to @social.verdi.de, our sister union in Germany - Verdi, whose members were attacked at a child care workers demonstration today in Munich. Shocking and senseless. @epsu.bsky.social @psiglobalunion.bsky.social

How can we effectively tax the super-rich? 💰 Join us for a 2-day conference on #TaxingBillionaires, where researchers, legal scholars & policymakers will explore methodologies, share research insights & discuss policy solutions. 🔗 More info: www.taxobservatory.eu/event/intern...

Stop using Chat GPT. Elon Musk-led group offering more than $97 billion to buy ChatGPT-maker OpenAI jrnl.ie/6619462