Irish Ferries: Exploiting workers and insulting Wilde

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:00:00 +0000
Irish Ferries, Minimum wage, Wages, Workplace, National, Newspaper, Analysis

When Irish Ferries launched their new €50million vessel in Dublin Port on Tuesday 29th January, 400 guests from the tourism, freight and shipping sectors attended the naming ceremony. How many of them, I wonder, took a moment as they quaffed their champagne and nibbled on their canapés to ponder on the news revealed by International Transport Workers Federation inspector, Ken Fleming, that the workers who would be manning the ferry will be paid as little as €4 per hour?