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The motion tabled by People Before Profit Councillor Shaun Harkin (bottom right) was passed unanimously with other representatives also condemning the Winter Fuel Payment cuts. Among those who spoke at the meeting were SDLP Colr. Brian Tierney, Sinn Féin Colr. Patricia Logue, Independent Councillor Gary Donnelly, DUP Alderman Keith Kerrigan and Mayor of Derry & Strabane Colr. Lilian Seenoi Barr.

People will die if Winter Fuel cuts go ahead, special meeting told

A Derry councillor has said the message from the British Labour Party conference vote calling for a reversal of the decision to means-test winter fuel payments for pensioners is ‘it’s time to freeze profiteering and austerity, not older people in their homes’.

Harkin says ‘freeze profiteering and austerity not older people’

Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey at the Gasyard.

15 photos from Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey’s ‘Poetry for the Many’ reading

Davy Kettles, Senior Organiser, Unite the Union, Ryan Harding, Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin and Brenda Stevenson, Regional Officer, Unite the Union,

Not on our Watch to show at Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin in Derry

US Special Envoy to the North for Economic Affairs during a visit to Seagate last week.

Seagate workers still uncertain over future

Unite members at a previous strike at the council offices.

Council confirms suspension of strike after talks with UNITE and NIPSA

Templemore Sports Complex.

Derry & Strabane leisure members advised over refunds after temporary closures

Aontú Colr. Emmet Doyle. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2133GS â€“ 037

Rubbish clear up could take some time after strike - Derry Council

Bus strike averted.

Translink pleased to have reached agreement with unions to avert bus strike

People Before Profit Councillor Shaun Harkin.

Derry & Strabane Councillors say they will not cross picket line

A number of DTUC events scheduled for Workers' Rights and Social Justice Week 2022 have been postponed.

DTUC postpone events in solidarity with striking workers

The price of a first class stamp will rise by 10p from 4 April (Photo: Getty Images)

Royal Mail is hiking the cost of first and second class stamps from April

UK flight disruption latest: airport strikes and walkouts - and how your flights...

Some of the men who travelled to Spain to join the fight against fascism.

Local brigadistas to be remembered in Derry

Schivo plight underlines the need for worker unity: McCann

More than 200 Sainsbury's jobs in the North could go according to UNITE the Union.

Jobs at Sainsbury's Strand Road under threat claims union
Jobs at Sainsbury's Superstore on the Strand Road are under threat according to UNITE the Union.
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