Water Service Workers Ireland

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💧 Our Water, Our Concern 💧

Communities rely on safe, clean water every day. When services fail, communication is poor, or concerns are ignored, it’s not just an internal issue it affects our health and trust.

Right now, accountability is missing. When Local councillors or TDs contact Uisce Éireann Irish Water they are often fibbed of or ignored. Local reps and citizens are forced to contact water service staff directly because reaching out to Uisce Éireann is often a waste of time. That’s a huge red flag for communities that depend on clear, reliable information about their water.

This isn’t about blame. It’s about standards. Every community deserves water services that are:

Reliable
Transparent
Professionally managed
Accountable

We deserve clear answers, real responsibility, and genuine improvements because speaking up is about protecting our communities, not being negative.

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Statement on SIPTU and there spin and lies.

What about the thousands of union members real frontline water workers whose democratic right to vote on a life-changing document was denied? Instead, twelve people decided the future of thousands.

SIPTU told everyone they held meetings “all around the country” to justify their actions, but that was a lie ask the workers themselves. The proof is out there in the videos, the posts, and the voice recordings from Water Service Workers Ireland. Those recordings show clearly that members were misled, excluded, and ignored.

Any GOOD union member would insist that all members get a vote. Any GENUINE union would demand that every worker has a say. And no decent negotiation committee would ever sign off on an agreement knowing the red-line issues were not met something SIPTU themselves admitted.

What we’re seeing here from THE FORMER WATER SERVICE Stephen Kelly is exactly what has torn trust apart in the water services. Those who sat across the table from management signed off on a deal that thousands of ordinary workers never got to vote on. They made decisions that changed people’s lives and then walked away and while everyone else was left to live with the fallout.

We were told repeatedly there would be no deal without a referendum being held.. This promise being broken lead to the then sector committee chairman Frank Lee resigning he's postion and calling Siptu leadership out for not securing the promises they made to members.

Real unionism means standing shoulder to shoulder, not cutting deals behind closed doors and calling it “representation.”
It’s easy to talk about loyalty now, but the traitors are the ones who turned their backs on their fellow workers, who refused them a democratic say on their own future, and who sold out the red-line issues they promised to protect.

Now Stephen Kelly cries about online criticism, yet ignore the real betrayal that caused it. Workers were left in limbo, their families uncertain about their futures, while a handful made decisions behind closed doors. That’s not representation that’s dictatorship in a union badge.

Stephen talks about there real gripe was not getting a vote on the framework document. Of course it is we are in a union for democracy not a dictatorship we want our voice to be listen to we want our say on life changing decsions that the least any member should get.

And let’s talk about the word “traitor”. A traitor isn’t the worker standing up for fairness it’s the person who turns their back on colleagues, who sells out their own colleagues, who refuses them a say in their future. A traitor is someone who calls themselves a unionist while doing management’s work for them.

We will be sharing over the next few days the proof the recordings, the documents, and the voices of workers across Ireland that show the truth about how SIPTU handled this deal and lied to their members. The very Lies the sector committee tried to helped SIPTU cover up.

Double standards run deep the same union that says it protects its members had officials recorded threatening to “break individual legs” and “throw them in the River Lee.” That’s the reality workers faced while fighting for honesty and democracy from there "union".

The Water Service Workers Ireland page has shown the real story protests across the country, experienced council workers walking away from the service they built, and families left anxious and angry.

We’re not going away. We’re standing up.
Because workers deserve truth, respect, and a union that remembers who it’s meant to serve its members, not the government and employers

Monaghan GAA

💧 The Truth About Uisce Éireann — and Why Council Water Workers Won’t Be Fooled

So Uisce Éireann were in front of the Public Accounts Committee this week trying to justify paying out €13 million in bonuses, claiming it was all about “performance” and “retaining talent.”

Let’s be honest this is the same company that still loses nearly 40% ( probably a lot more they haven't a clue what they are losing)of treated water through leaks, can’t manage basic operations, and shuts off water to hospitals by mistake. But sure, that’s “performance,” right?

What’s worse is the spin. They told PAC that everything is running smoothly under their framework with the local authorities but that’s just not true.

Local authority water workers the people who actually keep the taps running know the system inside out. They’ve seen how Uisce Éireann Irish Water operates, and they’ve seen the lack of experience, the management chaos, and the box-ticking culture.

Now they’re being pushed, pressured, and blamed while Uisce Éireann hands out bonuses to nearly 93% of staff! How can nearly everyone get a “performance” award in a company that’s constantly missing its own targets?

And we’re supposed to trust them to take over completely? No wonder so many council workers are refusing to move across. They don’t want to be part of a system that’s all about spin, PR and pay-outs not service, safety or accountability.

Maybe before paying themselves more “retention” bonuses, Uisce Éireann should try retaining some more water in the system.