"How can you squeeze blood from a stone?"
Workers work hard already, and deserve decent pay for that work.
The government's suggested pay "increase" wouldn't even cover inflation.
Every worker I spoke to on the picket lines aid they wouldn't settle for this insulting offer.
#UpTheWorkers
Workers work hard already, and deserve decent pay for that work.
The government's suggested pay "increase" wouldn't even cover inflation.
Every worker I spoke to on the picket lines aid they wouldn't settle for this insulting offer.
#UpTheWorkers
October 21, 2026 at 3:40 PM
"How can you squeeze blood from a stone?"
Workers work hard already, and deserve decent pay for that work.
The government's suggested pay "increase" wouldn't even cover inflation.
Every worker I spoke to on the picket lines aid they wouldn't settle for this insulting offer.
#UpTheWorkers
Workers work hard already, and deserve decent pay for that work.
The government's suggested pay "increase" wouldn't even cover inflation.
Every worker I spoke to on the picket lines aid they wouldn't settle for this insulting offer.
#UpTheWorkers
I don’t think the government and their fellow travellers in the medija realise how very angry people are - with the spectacular mess they’ve made amid a rising cost of everything crisis #uptheworkers
Stephen Collins in today’s IT 🤬🤬carrying water for a government who don’t want to engage with the unions,casting blame on a public service that delivers for people & not a government that’s supine before a tech bro driven neo capitalist agenda!My 19 year old self was right-bring on the revolution. ✊🏼
October 16, 2026 at 8:07 AM
I don’t think the government and their fellow travellers in the medija realise how very angry people are - with the spectacular mess they’ve made amid a rising cost of everything crisis #uptheworkers
What's the point of negotiations if there isn't a commitment in advance to give an inflation-busting pay raise to workers who have seen their real incomes eroded by 5% over the last few years?
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers #SpéirGhorm
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers #SpéirGhorm
October 16, 2026 at 10:45 AM
What's the point of negotiations if there isn't a commitment in advance to give an inflation-busting pay raise to workers who have seen their real incomes eroded by 5% over the last few years?
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers #SpéirGhorm
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers #SpéirGhorm
October 14, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Huge turnout for picket duty at the Rotunda #UpTheWorkers
October 14, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Huge turnout for picket duty at the Rotunda #UpTheWorkers
#Spéirghorm this is how it's done! #uptheworkers
Myself & my senior infant (with baby in tow) did a wee tour of the local pickets and honked away while I explained strikes to her. Then we picked up her sister from preschool and made buns for her teachers before walking down to give them out at the picket line. #uptheworkers
October 14, 2026 at 4:45 PM
#Spéirghorm this is how it's done! #uptheworkers
Up The Workers! #Speirgorm #Uptheworkers
October 14, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Up The Workers! #Speirgorm #Uptheworkers
Yesterday's strike showed the reality that it's workers, with public sector workers at their heart, that makes our society run.
No weather forecast, no Dáil, no schools, no street cleaning, massively reduced hospitals.
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers
No weather forecast, no Dáil, no schools, no street cleaning, massively reduced hospitals.
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers
October 15, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Yesterday's strike showed the reality that it's workers, with public sector workers at their heart, that makes our society run.
No weather forecast, no Dáil, no schools, no street cleaning, massively reduced hospitals.
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers
No weather forecast, no Dáil, no schools, no street cleaning, massively reduced hospitals.
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers
"Streets not getting cleaned, the Dáil not sitting, the weather not being forecast. You see the power of public sector workers."
The reason for the level of support is clear - people get it. A win for public sector workers is a win for all!
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers
The reason for the level of support is clear - people get it. A win for public sector workers is a win for all!
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers
October 15, 2026 at 4:20 PM
"Streets not getting cleaned, the Dáil not sitting, the weather not being forecast. You see the power of public sector workers."
The reason for the level of support is clear - people get it. A win for public sector workers is a win for all!
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers
The reason for the level of support is clear - people get it. A win for public sector workers is a win for all!
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers
Taking the opportunity to teach my kids what a strike is, what a picket is and how to support the workers.
#UpTheWorkers
#UpTheWorkers
I love this. I toured the town with my boys to beep at them. Then we visited their school with treats for the teachers.
My little lad who's FOUR says "mama roll down my window" as we were leaving. I complied.
"Up the workers" he shouts at them 🤣
I've never been prouder
My little lad who's FOUR says "mama roll down my window" as we were leaving. I complied.
"Up the workers" he shouts at them 🤣
I've never been prouder
October 14, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Taking the opportunity to teach my kids what a strike is, what a picket is and how to support the workers.
#UpTheWorkers
#UpTheWorkers
October 14, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Make sure you email your TDs and tell them you support the workers Striking. #uptheworkers #speirgorm
I support all the public and civil service on strike today. #SpeirGhorm #TradeUnions
October 14, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Make sure you email your TDs and tell them you support the workers Striking. #uptheworkers #speirgorm
Out and about today so lots of beeping for the workers on strike. @forsatradeunion.bsky.social #speirgorm #UpTheWorkers
October 14, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Out and about today so lots of beeping for the workers on strike. @forsatradeunion.bsky.social #speirgorm #UpTheWorkers
I live near a few schools and there has been constant cars beeping their horns all day... non stop support.
#SpeirGorm #Solidarity #UpTheWorkers
#SpeirGorm #Solidarity #UpTheWorkers
October 14, 2026 at 12:57 PM
I live near a few schools and there has been constant cars beeping their horns all day... non stop support.
#SpeirGorm #Solidarity #UpTheWorkers
#SpeirGorm #Solidarity #UpTheWorkers
Big crowd at Mater & Mountjoy too ... #uptheworkers
October 14, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Big crowd at Mater & Mountjoy too ... #uptheworkers
It does the heart good to have your bus driver beep in support of the striking public sector workers in town. #Spéirgorm #UpTheWorkers
October 14, 2026 at 7:41 AM
It does the heart good to have your bus driver beep in support of the striking public sector workers in town. #Spéirgorm #UpTheWorkers
Funny how it's theft when someone does it to them #OpenAI
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
OpenAI: Files leaked by employee also include manufacturing data about devices - OpenAI brief in Apple vs OpenAI lawsuit $AAPL
October 14, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Funny how it's theft when someone does it to them #OpenAI
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
it sounds like NYC around here with all the beeping!!! #UpTheWorkers
October 14, 2026 at 12:58 PM
it sounds like NYC around here with all the beeping!!! #UpTheWorkers
October 14, 2026 at 5:09 PM
The trains out of it are lovely & quiet tho! #UpTheWorkers
October 14, 2026 at 3:16 PM
The trains out of it are lovely & quiet tho! #UpTheWorkers
Great turn out on the picket lines today.
Support your locals.Give your local Strikers a beep!! 🚘
#UpTheWorkers ✊️
#Speirghorm
Support your locals.Give your local Strikers a beep!! 🚘
#UpTheWorkers ✊️
#Speirghorm
October 14, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Great turn out on the picket lines today.
Support your locals.Give your local Strikers a beep!! 🚘
#UpTheWorkers ✊️
#Speirghorm
Support your locals.Give your local Strikers a beep!! 🚘
#UpTheWorkers ✊️
#Speirghorm
Dismal.
Mortifying
Stealing culture and human creativity like all techbro goons
Hope Seamus Heaney's family sue for this misrepresentation!
#UpTheWorkers Remember, today is the day of the #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
Mortifying
Stealing culture and human creativity like all techbro goons
Hope Seamus Heaney's family sue for this misrepresentation!
#UpTheWorkers Remember, today is the day of the #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
Virkkunen ends her speech, mostly about how the EU will be an “AI Continent” with a reference to Sean’s Heaney’s Digging, saying every generation has its instrument - and maybe our pen / shovel is AI
Our culture is really being mined here today
Her speech ends and she and An Taoiseach flee
Our culture is really being mined here today
Her speech ends and she and An Taoiseach flee
October 14, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Dismal.
Mortifying
Stealing culture and human creativity like all techbro goons
Hope Seamus Heaney's family sue for this misrepresentation!
#UpTheWorkers Remember, today is the day of the #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
Mortifying
Stealing culture and human creativity like all techbro goons
Hope Seamus Heaney's family sue for this misrepresentation!
#UpTheWorkers Remember, today is the day of the #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
It's a big week for AI summits in Dublin so in anticipation of the regulation rhetoric about to stem from the industry at these meetings, I'd like to remind you of reasons to bear a healthy scepticism in mind on this matter...
Full interview: www.newstalk.com/podcasts/cla...
Full interview: www.newstalk.com/podcasts/cla...
October 14, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Margaret Skinnider, revolutionary woman, committed trade unionist, President of the INTO in 1956. Said that the first thing any women should do, on getting a job, is join a union - she joined the INTO the day she got her teaching post. She’d be on the picket line today. #uptheworkers
October 14, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Margaret Skinnider, revolutionary woman, committed trade unionist, President of the INTO in 1956. Said that the first thing any women should do, on getting a job, is join a union - she joined the INTO the day she got her teaching post. She’d be on the picket line today. #uptheworkers