SIPTU

SIPTU (Services, Industrial, Professional, and Technical Union) is Ireland's largest trade union, with over 200,000 members according to its website. It was formed in 1990 with the merger of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union and the Federated Workers' Union of Ireland. The merger was first proposed in the 1950s, and almost happened in 1969.

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It says its core values are solidarity, equity, equality, and democracy.

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• Welcome to SIPTU — the union's website

Ireland: :This page is about the island of Ireland. For the political territories on the island, see Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and the History section below....

1990: :For information on the number, see 1990 (number)....

Irish Transport and General Workers' Union: The Irish Transport and General Workers Union, an Irish trade union, was founded by James Larkin in 1908 as a general union. Initially drawing its membership from branches of the Liverpool-based National Union of Dock Labourers, from which Larkin had been expelled, it grew to include workers in a ra...