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Croke Park 2 voted down - Conflict with government now looming
Date: Tue, 2013-04-16 18:37
Government efforts to bully public sector workers into accepting further wage cuts and harsher working conditions have been decisively rejected today. SIPTU, INMO and the INTO all announced that they had rejected the deal in votes today. The rejection by SIPTU members was the final nail in the coffin of the deal, the members voting against it despite the efforts of the leadership to force it through, the margin was narrow only a few percent but the INMO recorded a 95.5% rejection and in the INTO almost 70% voted against the agreement.
Why we said No to Croke Park Two
Date: Tue, 2013-04-16 18:37
Vote NO to
- Further deterioration of the public services we all use
- A freeze in pay & increments
- A huge increase in hours for many workers & the subsequent loss of jobs
- The loss of 6 days holidays for many workers
- Unpaid overtime & cuts to overtime
- Restrictions on flexitime & work sharing
Rossport Solidarity Camp bulletin April 2013
Date: Tue, 2013-04-16 12:43
This is the latest bulletin from the Rossport Solidarity Camp about the struggle against Shell in Erris. For the background and history to this stuggle see our huge archive of articles tagged Rossport.
Workers Solidarity 128 - Nov/Dec 2012
Date: Tue, 2013-04-16 12:24
The November / December issue of Irelands anarchist paper Workers Solidarity. This is issue 128
The WSM & fighting the last war - a reply to James O’Brien
Date: Mon, 2013-04-15 14:08
The left is fond of military analogies so I want to open this piece with the observation that poor generals plan for the last war rather than the next one. Those militaries that planned for World War Two by perfecting the trench systems that dominated World War One had their powerful & expensive fortifications quickly overwhelmed in the opening weeks of the war through blitzkrieg. And in turn by 1943 Blizkrieg was defeated though defence in depth at Kursk.
A round-up of WSM activity at the start of 2013
Date: Mon, 2013-04-15 10:19
Our members in Cork and Dublin have been active at local, regional and national levels in the Cam- paign Against Home and Water Taxes, helping with stalls, leaf- letting and demos, and arguing for greater grassroots democracy within the campaign. WSM members were also invloved in occupations of council offices and TDs offices in Cork and Dublin as part of the campaign.
1000's of anti-home taxes campaigners march on EU ministers
Date: Sun, 2013-04-14 13:50
Thousands took part in the CAHWT march yesterday on the EU Finance ministers march in Dublin castle. You can see more photos of the protest in our Facebook album of march on EU ministers.
Only mass action can defeat Austerity - WS129 Cover story
Date: Fri, 2013-04-12 16:09
Five years into an austerity program that is only working to make the rich richer, most of us are very unhappy about the lack of resistance from the unions. During the Croke Park campaign the SIPTU National Executive Council released a statement that included: "There is, of course, a wider issue of fairness in the Country as a whole because the wealthy are not contributing to the degree that they can or should. This is a consequence of the political choices made by the voters at election time.”
CAHWT – inspiring people to demand participatory democracy
Date: Fri, 2013-04-12 15:55
At a public meeting of the Campaign Against Home and Water Taxes (CAHWT) in Kildare last month, a query was raised from a woman anxious about the upcoming local elections. She explained her complete frustration with the austerity policies of the Fine Gael-Labour Government, and described her despair at not having the power to challenge policies that were ravaging her community, stating there “really is no one legitimate left to vote for.”