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Leadership comes close to losing 2nd PSA ballot at INTO conference
Date: Wed, 2010-04-07 15:32
INTO Conference has again had a narrow vote in relation to the Public Sector deal. After another lively and angry debate, Delegates voted by 306 votes to 248 against a section of a motion which would have had the effect of postponing the ballot on the deal until the full details of any revised teachers contract were made available.
Report from a WSM member at the INTO Congress
Date: Wed, 2010-04-07 15:13
In what is being described by RTE as a blow to the leadership, delegates at the INTO annual Congress in Galway today (Tuesday) passed a motion which declared that the Public Sector Agreement 2010 -2014 is contrary to INTO policy. After a lively debate, it was agreed to endorse the union leadership's decision to put the deal to a ballot of the membership but the section of the motion which called for a recommendation that members reject the deal in that ballot was defeated by just 4 votes - 308 to 304.
Captain Jack White on the Easter rising
Date: Tue, 2010-04-06 16:18
These opinions and reactions are just a small sample of what is out there. This Easter Week, we should look at the event not just as a week long insurrection, but as an event that would ricochet on through the troubles that followed and continue to spark debate long after the last bullets whizzed through the Dublin sky.
Dublin Bus sacks union representative
Date: Tue, 2010-04-06 14:35
The sacking of Eugene McDonagh by Dublin Bus management and his simultaneous suspension by the National Bus & Rail Union from its national executive shows the true face of ‘social partnership’. Eugene has been a bus driver for 21 years and has an unblemished work record. The bosses and the senior union bureaucracy have come together to attack effective trade unionism in Harristown garage.
INTO Teachers union splits down middle on proposed public sector deal
Date: Tue, 2010-04-06 14:32
The conference of the Irish National Teachers Organisation conference has split down the middle on the question of whether to accept or reject the Public Sector Agreement negotiated by the trade union bosses. Delegates voted 304 for and 308 against an amendment which would have meant the rejection of the deal. Delegates who oppose the deal are now meeting up to start the organisation of a No campaign in the INTO.
PALESTINIAN LAND DAY commemoration
Date: Tue, 2010-04-06 12:42
A number of WSM members attended the Irish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) commemoration of Land Day – March 30th which has become a symbolic day of support both in Palestine and throughout the world. This marks the day when strikes were organised in many Palestinian towns in Israel back in 1976 as a reaction to the expropriation of more land by that aggressor state.
US forces kill journalists, ambulance crew, shoot children in Iraq
Date: Mon, 2010-04-05 23:57
Al Jazerra have released this video that shows US Apache helicopters use a mini gun against a group of journalists & civilians in Iraq. When a van arrives to evacuate the injured that is also shot up, killing the driver. When US troops arrive on the scene the pilots laugh when they run over a body and then when they are told that the injured include two children laugh again saying 'you shouldn't bring your children to a war.' Except of course those they have killed were not in a war, they were walking down a street before being gunned down from the sky without cause or warning.
Report from Easter Rising Commemorations in Cork city
Date: Mon, 2010-04-05 14:26
James reports from the Workers Party, 32 County Sovereignty Movement, Republican Sinn Fein and Sinn Fein commemorations at the republican plot on Easter Sunday in Cork's St. Finbarrs cemetery.
The 1916 rising and class struggle in Ireland 1886-1923
Date: Sun, 2010-04-04 13:06
Articles on 1916, the War of Independence and related issues published by the WSM as well as material by other anarchists and documents from the period.
Image: Money issued by the 1919 Limerick Soviet
Public Sector Agreement - exposing the real transformation agenda
Date: Thu, 2010-04-01 10:28
WSM member and UNITE activist Dermot Sreenan gives his initial opinion on the (Draft) Public Sector Agreement. "We must reject this deal and when we vote for rejecting this deal – we are going back to what we voted for back in October, Strike. If the leadership cannot allow, contemplate or enable us to do that – then we replace them. Our Unions are still ours. It is time to clean house – it is time to get back to injury to one is the concern of all."