Workers' Group EESC @WorkersEESC@respublicae.eu

9/10: In later years, Markievicz became a dedicated humanitarian, working to alleviate poverty and suffering in Ireland and abroad.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1632742564037025796

8/10: Markievicz was always very politically active, joining the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies from early years. Following the Irish independence, she became the first Irish labour Female Minister (1919-1922) and the second female minister in Europe.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1632742463910600707

7/10: While in prison, Markievicz continued to fight for Irish independence, and she was eventually released as part of a general amnesty in 1917.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1632742304392904705

6/10: During the Easter Rising, Markievicz fought alongside her comrades in the Irish Citizen Army, wearing a green uniform and carrying a rifle. She was arrested and sentenced to death, but her sentence was later commuted to life in prison.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1632742187602460672

5/10: Markievicz was a skilled artist, and her drawings and paintings were exhibited in galleries in London and Dublin. Her work often depicted scenes from Irish folklore and mythology.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1632742071743176708

4/10: Despite being a prominent figure in the Irish nationalist movement, Markievicz was also a committed feminist and fought for women's worker's rights throughout her life.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1632741964440272898

3/10: Markievicz was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, but she refused to take her seat, choosing instead to support the revolutionary forces in Ireland and to fight for Irish independence.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1632741844936171520

2/10: As a young woman, Markievicz was known for her love of hunting, but later in life she became a committed animal rights activist, advocating for the humane treatment of animals and working to ban fox hunting in Ireland.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1632741696705314816

@ETUCE_CSEE @ituc @etuc_ces @EESC_SOC @LucaLuc19908512 @oliverroepke @MariaNikolo @EU_Social @NicolasSchmitEU @EESC_PRESS 1/10 Constance Markievicz was a woman of many contradictions. Born into an aristocratic family in Ireland in 1868, she later became a revolutionary socialist and one of the leaders of the Irish Easter Rising in 1916.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1632741495416532993

The @WorkersEESC will celebrate #InternationalWomensDay2023 with the posting each Monday in March of a thread 🧵 about women union leaders usually overlooked by history.
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Starting today with the first one 👇🏻
Constance Markievicz

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1632741363694419968

RT @ETF_Europe: The transport industry is going through a major worker shortage crisis!

The @WorkersEESC is launching a study on #labour shortage in transport in the EU - the study will aim to propose solutions to tackle this crisis!

Be a part of the change & apply!⬇️

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1632731098047295492

RT @IsblCano: So happy to have met this group of young people from the @ScholaEuropaea👍. So active and curious about Your Europe Your Say #YEYS23 and 🇪🇺European project.
We will soon welcome them in our @EU_EESC 🤩
@EESC_PRESS
@WorkersEESC
@CillianLohan
@ScholaEuropaea

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1632653264494755841

RT @livia_spera: @ETF_Europe

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RT @giuliabarbucci: Protagoniste sempre #cgil

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1631621300710957056

RT @FinUnions: ‼️ Belarusian trade union leaders and activists are today illegally imprisoned and several have already been sentenced to years in jail. This is not democracy. Release #Belarus'ian trade unionists! 👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1631609694732136448

RT @EESC_LiaisonG: 📢 #CivSocDays 2023 closing session on #CSOs long-term perspective in #EmpoweringYouth!

👋Closing remarks by @EESC_President & @BrikenaXhomaqi!

🔴LIVE NOW: https://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/agenda/our-events/events/civil-society-days-2023/webstreaming-0103

🔗Slido #CivSocDays2023Closing

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1631608530804387841

RT @EESC_LiaisonG: 📢3rd and last day for #CivSocDays 2023!

🔴Join @EMInternational, @Green_Europe, @Solidar_EU & @EU_EESC ad hoc groups: #FRRLGroup & #ECI to discuss the future of #ParticipatoryDemocracy & #DeliberativeDemocracy

Find out here 💻: https://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/agenda/our-events/events/civil-society-days-2023/webstreaming-0103

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1631602804354580480

RT @Solidar_EU: 🗣️Our SG @LeyiMikael "Participation is linked with structural factors such as inequalities, access to human and social rights, poverty and exclusion. In Europe today we see how inequalities widen, poverty and exclusion persist, and access to rights is at risk of deteriorating".

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1631602793113845761

RT @EESC_LiaisonG: 🔹Live at #CivSocDays 2023 @LefevreChristop on #EuropeanCitizensInitiave

The @EU_EESC gives a voice also to those who have not reached the threshold. With @EU_Commission we are working hard to make this tool more user-friendly

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1631602764705939456

RT @oliverroepke: Thank you 🇪🇸 Minister Pascual Navarro @SpainMFA for your visit at the #EESC and the outstanding cooperation.
We will do the utmost to make the upcoming Spanish Presidency a success.
#EU2023ES

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WorkersEESC/status/1631350957140238348