Our Community is Not For Sale

SIPTU members, working in local employment services are campaigning to highlight their opposition to plans to privatise essential community services.

‘Our Community is Not for Sale’ campaign is demanding an immediate halt to tenders for private companies to bid for state contracts to run programmes to assist people getting back into the workforce. 

We are asking our supporters to support a Private Members Bill this week demanding the protection of the not-for-profit and community-based ethos of employment services, the suspension of all plans to tender out employment services and the establishment of a stakeholder forum between the Minister and representatives from Job Clubs and Local Employment Services to examine the current services, identify issues of concern and bring forward solutions that will allow current services to be maintained.