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The cost-of-living crisis and soaring energy bills will not be solved by handouts, tinkering around the edges or populist sound bites. They have real and life changing consequences from an increasing reliance on food banks, fuel poverty, financial pressures, physical and mental health crises and malnutrition to hypothermia. How often does it have to be […]
Sinn Féin MLA Cathal Boylan has said action is needed rather than ‘appeals’ from the British government to halt the obscene rip-off of workers and families by huge energy corporations. The Newry and Armagh MLA said: “Appeals from Boris Johnson to energy companies are worthless when his government has the power to take real action […]
Electric Ireland, the third largest electricity supplier in Northern Ireland, have announced today it will be increasing electricity prices by 29% for customers from 1 October 2022. This is the second increase from1 May 2022 and will see the typical credit meter and keypad (PAYG) customers’ bills rise by almost £275 per year. Raymond Gormley, […]
Sinn Féin MLA Caoimhe Archibald has branded reports that energy producers and generators are set to make an eye-watering £170 billion in profits over two years an ‘absolute scandal’ and called for action to stop the rip-off. The party’s economic spokesperson said: “Reports that big energy generators and producers will make £170 billion in additional […]
The Consumer Council’s weekly heating oil survey shows heating oil prices in Northern Ireland have again breached £1 per litre, more than twice the ten-year average price. Prices have increased by more than a 25% in the past three weeks, the equivalent of more than £100 on 500 litres of heating oil. Peter McClenaghan, Director […]
Sinn Féin MLA Conor Murphy has said the British government should provide more funding to help struggling businesses through the unprecedented rises in their electricity bills. The Finance Minister said: “The British government must step up with financial support to support businesses which are being hammered by the huge rise in electricity bills. “Right now some […]
Workers in almost every service and manufacturing sector have been, are planning to, or are currently taking industrial action in defence of standards conditions, safety, jobs and wages. It is a situation almost without parallel. Nurses and midwives are considering strike action for the second time in three years, local council workers have been forced […]
SSE Airtricity announces 28.4% price increase for gas customers & 35.5% increase for electricity customers SSE Airtricity has announced an increase of 28.4% for gas customers, effective from Saturday 1 October 2022. This will impact around 188,000 domestic gas customers throughout the Greater Belfast and West gas networks, and about 4,600 commercial customers. This news […]
Four week strike will have severe impact on housing services. Strike involving 300 Unite members will start on Monday 5 September. Unite the union has confirmed that it has given the Northern Ireland Housing Executive seven day notice of a strike action over pay. The strike by the union’s approximately 300 members working at the […]
Urgent help to support struggling local businesses is needed says South Down MLA, Patrick Brown. The calls come off the back of the continued rise in energy costs and increasing inflation, which have led to a number of businesses across South Down having to close. Businesses that were struggling to recover from the effects of […]
Unite the union’s members at leading timber and building merchants vote with 78.4% majority to accept pay deal providing 12 percent increase over fifteen months In July Unite members working at Haldane Fisher, Northern Ireland’s leading timber and building merchants, voted with a 98.1% majority to reject a pay offer from management worth an average […]
Sinn Féin MLA Deirdre Hargey has said that the DUP boycott of government in a deepening cost of living emergency is a dereliction of duty and totally indefensible. Deirdre Hargey said: “Yesterday, Ministers met to try find a way around the DUP boycott of government and get desperately needed help to families struggling with food […]
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