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Join with the ICTU protest from Anglo to the Dail
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Wednesday September 22, 2010 22:20
by pat c
End the cuts & bailouts! Let the bankers pay for their crisis!
Protest against the government at the re-opening of the Dail starting from Anglo Irish Bank, Stephens Green 29th September 12.30 pm.
The 29th September marks an international day of protest that has been called by the European Trade Union Confederation against the policies being pursued across the continent making working people and the unemployed and anybody who depends on public services pay for the economic crisis. The day will be marked by a general strike in Spain and mass demonstrations organised by the trade union movement in the rest of Europe.
IN DUBLIN the 29th September also happens to be the same day the Dáil resumes its business after an obscenely long ‘summer’ break. The Fianna Fáil/Green government are planning further cutbacks to the tune of at least €3 billion in the next budget. The cost of Anglo Irish Bank alone to the taxpayer has been €25 billion to date and predicted to rise to between €35 - €39 billion if the government continues with this policy.
THE GOVERNMENT spin that all the pain we have been asked to swallow would be rewarded with a pick up in the economy and that the worst is all behind us has been shown up as lies.
THE CIVIL and Public Service Union (CPSU) Activist Group and Joe Higgins MEP last month issued the call for a lunch time protest on the Dáil on 29th September. This has been endorsed by a number of trade union activists from IMPACT, SIPTU, IWU, UNITE, TEEU, IBOA, TUI, ASTI, INTO as well as left parties and campaigning groups who see the need for a real fightback. ICTU have subsequently also made the call for people to protest and effort must be made by all of the unions to get as many out on the streets as possible.
WE NEED an active response to this government’s attacks. The 29th September protest at the Dáil can be a meeting point for workers from all sectors, private and public, the unemployed, community and hospital campaigns, students and pensioners – all who are in this government’s sights for further cuts and unjust taxes.
SHOW YOUR opposition to the government's disastrous policies and to the dumping of billions into the Anglo Irish black hole by joining with other trade unionists and workers on the 29th September.
TELEPHONE: 01 6795030 or
EMAIL 29septemberprotest@gmail.com
for further information and or to get leaflets and posters to help in the campaign to mobilise people for the protest.
Comments (5 of 5)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5The savings generated from the 10,000 reduction in numbers on the State payroll will not count when calculating monies to be redistributed to workers under the Croke Park agreement, the Government said today.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0923/....html
Despite undertakings given at the time Biffo has now decided that he is going to rewrite the Croke Park Agreement. This is definitely a foul and its time that Biffo and his cronies were sent off!
The craven ICTU misleaders just sat there and took this latest insult from Biffos messenger boy, Dara Callery.
Come along on 29 September and give Biffo the Red Card!
At the same conference where the ICTU lapdogs didn't bark at Callery a Financier, William Slattery head of financial services company State Street’s Irish business issued his orders to BIffo:
He wants 30,000 public servants to be made redundant and a new lower paid entry level grade for the public service!
These parasites have the neck to go on the attack when we are bailing them out and paying off their bonds!
They have declared Class War on us! Lets declare Class War back on them.
I have great affinity with the thoughts of pat c, but unless the workers rid themselves of ICTU leaders who sat with employers and NODDED to everything that the government proposed - and intended - the public service will be decimated. These, apparently, very sincere ICTU leaders will nod wisely and claim that they've saved many jobs.
Remember - fool me once, your fault - fool me twice, my fault.
So far there has been very little in the media about this protest.
The ICTU site says
... which I guess means they kinda had to call it. It seems half-hearted to me, so it's not worth traveling from the west of Ireland to Dublin. I imagine that the ICTU has considerable media connections, which they don't seem to have used this time.
Perhaps someone could explain why the unions and opposition leaders have not called a general protest that allows everyone to express their anger. Is it they are fear-full of riots?
I think we will be known through-out Europe as a people that are easy to subjugate, as we do not stand up, even to the current madness.
I totally agree with Gordon. The majority of the people I work with or my friends/family outside of work knew nothing about this protest it was so badly advertised. Unless the organisers start advertising these protests properly they will never get the numbers they need to make an impact. As far as I can see it is only some union members that are gettig the information. I am an IMPACT union member and I recieved nothing about this protest or any of the previous protests. I get most of my information from another union entirely because I know one of their members. It's a shame as many people are extremely angry at the moment so the organisers should take advantage of that anger and get bigger numbers by getting the information out there
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