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146 releases
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0% Pay Offer: A Slap In The Face To Health Workers
People Before Profit calls for all-out strike action by healthcare workers in the North after the Permanent Secretary announced no 2023 pay offer for NHS staff, saying a zero offer would break pay parity with England, Scotland and Wales.
Health Economy and employment Original release: 0% Pay Offer: A Slap In The Face To Health Workers
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Support Grant Cuts Will Punish The Poor – Gerry Carroll MLA
People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll says proposed cuts to discretionary financial support grants will hit the poorest, as the Department for Communities warns of a £111.2 million funding gap after the recent budget.
Social security and welfare Public finance and taxation Original release: Support Grant Cuts Will Punish The Poor – Gerry Carroll MLA
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Strike Back Against Education Cuts
People Before Profit says the Education Authority has no authority to implement the proposed £200 million education cuts and urges any incoming Executive to refuse the Tory austerity plan, warning it will punish vulnerable children.
Education Public finance and taxation Original release: Strike Back Against Education Cuts
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O’neill: People Before Profit Won’t Be Silent In Face Of Drastic Tory Cuts
Derry councillor Maeve O'Neill says planned UK Government budget cuts will hit residents across The Moor hard, accusing Sinn Féin, the SDLP and Alliance of voting with the DUP on Council rates, services and charges.
Public finance and taxation Local government Original release: O’neill: People Before Profit Won’t Be Silent In Face Of Drastic Tory Cuts
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People Before Profit Statement On The Coronation
People Before Profit calls the coronation an obscene exercise in feudal nostalgia at a cost of over £250 million amid the cost-of-living crisis, and criticises Sinn Féin's decision to attend the ceremony.
Constitutional affairs Economy and employment Original release: People Before Profit Statement On The Coronation
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Doherty: Tories Exploiting Dup Obstruction To Impose Economic Punishment
People Before Profit Ballyarnett candidate Damien Doherty accuses the Tory Secretary of State of exploiting the Assembly impasse to impose cuts to children's services, health, pay and vulnerable groups, and urges strikes and community action against the budget.
Public finance and taxation Economy and employment Original release: Doherty: Tories Exploiting Dup Obstruction To Impose Economic Punishment
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Stormont Budget: Carroll Urges Grassroots Resistance To Cuts
People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll describes the Stormont budget as an attack on schoolchildren, the sick and workers, and says the party will organise grassroots resistance to cuts outlined by the Secretary of State to Stormont departments.
Public finance and taxation Economy and employment Original release: Stormont Budget: Carroll Urges Grassroots Resistance To Cuts
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People Before Profit Standing In North’s Local Elections
People Before Profit says it will stand candidates in the May 18th council elections in Belfast, Derry, Strabane and Coleraine, positioning itself as a clear voice for workers' rights. It urges workers on strike to back the party, and calls for wealthier residents to pay more and an end to…
Economy and employment Local government Original release: People Before Profit Standing In North’s Local Elections
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25 Years Of The Good Friday Agreement – Time To Make Poverty And Sectarianism History
People Before Profit councillor Shaun Harkin, a Derry City Councillor, introduces a special party report marking 25 years of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, arguing it failed to deliver prosperity or end sectarianism and calling for a new Ireland based on equality.
Constitutional affairs Economy and employment Original release: 25 Years Of The Good Friday Agreement – Time To Make Poverty And Sectarianism History
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Statement On Intimidation Of Activists In West Belfast
People Before Profit condemns a threat and theft of election materials against its activists on Lanark Way in West Belfast, saying masked men took posters and ladders while activists were campaigning for a Court DEA candidate. It blames loyalist paramilitaries and calls on the DUP to stop engaging…
Justice and policing Economy and employment Original release: Statement On Intimidation Of Activists In West Belfast
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People Before Profit Statement on Joe Biden
People Before Profit says Joe Biden is no man of peace, criticising US military aid to Israel and Saudi Arabia and arming of Ukraine as double standards, while listing its planned Irish events during his April visit.
International affairs Constitutional affairs Original release: People Before Profit Statement on Joe Biden
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Newry: Public Meeting On Cuts To Daisy Hill Hospital
People Before Profit says a public meeting in Newry heard that Daisy Hill Hospital's emergency general surgery has been moved to Craigavon, and calls the change a cut by stealth made without proper community consultation.
Health Economy and employment Original release: Newry: Public Meeting On Cuts To Daisy Hill Hospital
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International Women’s Day
People Before Profit marks International Women's Day by recalling its socialist origins and arguing that housing, cost of living and health service pressures disproportionately affect women, particularly poor and working-class women. It also cites a 14% gender pay gap and calls for full bodily…
Disability and equality Economy and employment Original release: International Women’s Day
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Protocol: No Concessions To Sectarianism
People Before Profit says any new EU-UK deal on the Protocol must not further entrench communal divisions at Stormont, and opposes further Protocol concessions to the DUP and its use of the sectarian veto.
Constitutional affairs Economy and employment Original release: Protocol: No Concessions To Sectarianism
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Doherty: Housing Executive Hike Another Decision In The Wrong Direction
People Before Profit Ballyarnett representative Damien Doherty criticises the Housing Executive's 7% rent increase, arguing it follows other price rises and that the agency's reserves make it unnecessary. He also accuses Sinn Féin, SDLP, DUP and Alliance of hypocrisy over a recent council rates…
Housing Economy and employment Original release: Doherty: Housing Executive Hike Another Decision In The Wrong Direction
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Strike Wave Rallies Throughout The North
People Before Profit reports on February 2023 strikes and rallies across the North by teachers, health workers and Housing Executive staff over pay and public services. It calls for NIPSA to escalate to a general strike, and urges councils to resist rate increases.
Economy and employment Education Original release: Strike Wave Rallies Throughout The North
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Harkin: We Won’t Back An Unfair Council Rates Hike
People Before Profit Councillor Shaun Harkin says his party will not back a council rates rise, arguing households and organisations in hardship should not pay for austerity and corporate profiteering.
Local government Public finance and taxation Original release: Harkin: We Won’t Back An Unfair Council Rates Hike
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United Strike For The NHS
People Before Profit reports on united pickets by around 25,000 NHS staff from Unite, Unison and NIPSA at hospitals, including Ulster Hospital and City Hospital, calling for action on safe staffing, mileage rates, pay and retention.
Health Economy and employment Original release: United Strike For The NHS
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2023: Socialism Is The Answer To A World In Crisis
People Before Profit's end-of-year statement argues that capitalism cannot solve inflation, climate change, reproductive rights, the war in Ukraine or Ireland's housing and hospital crises, and calls for Ireland's first left wing government.
Economy and employment International affairs Original release: 2023: Socialism Is The Answer To A World In Crisis
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The RCN Strike
People Before Profit publishes a transcript of an RCN strike-day interview at Ulster Hospital, where RCN representatives say nurses remain out of pay parity with England, Scotland and Wales, causing recruitment and retention problems and unsafe staffing.
Health Economy and employment Issue: RCN strike at Ulster Hospital over pay parity Original release: The RCN Strike