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Written by The Editor of the Red Plough
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 21:23 |
We are pleased to publish two articles from The Red Plough today, the articles deal with two major factors on the island of Ireland; the crisis in the public sector on either side of the border and the blind alley of the armed republicans. The other article can be found here: http://ireland.marxist.com/ireland/north-of-ireland/7773-the-north-of-ireland-a-normal-state-
Originally published in The Red Plough E-mail newsletter, Vol. 1, No 5
Right across the British Isles public services are under attack. The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) have called two days of strikes against cuts in redundancy pay. The British Government has put a cap on redundancy and hope to save over £500 million. The union fears it is the beginning of both massive redundancies in the public service and also creeping privatisation of those same public services.
The walkout is the biggest show of industrial unrest in the civil service since 1987. Courts, ports, job and tax centres and emergency police call centres are being affected by the walkout. In the North of Ireland 2,000 civil servants are taking part in the strike. PCS says members could lose a third of their entitlement over cuts under the civil service compensation scheme.
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Written by TEEU solidarity Appeal
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 14:38 |
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We would urge all of our comrades, supporters and readers to respond to this urgent call for solidarity.
Act now and lobby your TDs and councillors to stop this injustice.
John Recto was one of the Green Isle Foods workers who spent six months on the picket line and then went on hunger strike to achieve justice. Although the dispute has now been settled John faces deportation for standing by his colleagues, along with his wife Liezel and their three children aged six, seven and one year.
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Written by Séamus Loughlin
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Saturday, 06 March 2010 23:48 |
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ICTU’s meeting on Monday should make an assessment of the effectiveness of the work to rule campaign and the partial actions that we have seen in the past weeks. It should listen to the views of the workers in the hospitals and the government departments, the council offices and then make plans to ensure that the wage cuts are defeated. The pressure is beginning to mount, but for sure it never went away. The CPSU vote to escalate their action with a variety of limited and indefinite strikes is an indication of this. The CPSU has been at the forefront of the struggles over the last year, But that should be no surprise, they are directly employed by the government and directly affected by every twist and turn of Cowen and Lenihan.
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Written by Fightback
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Sunday, 28 February 2010 20:12 |
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Yesterday 27th February some 1,000 workers, trade union members and their families marched through Naas in County Kildare in support of the campaign to reinstate the three sacked workers. The demonstration was organised by Kildare Trades Council, with national speakers including Jack O’Connor who made a fiery speech calling for the boycotting of Green Isle foods produce and that of their parent company in Britain Northern Foods.
Jim Wyse’s who is now on the 13th day of his hunger strike has been joined by another worker John Guinan and a third is soon to join them unless their demands are met. We think this dispute is symptomatic of the industrial and political situation in Ireland and its clear that the role of the national leadership will be crucial in supporting the struggle.
Jim is producing a daily blog which you can access here: http://www.teeu.ie/greenisle.asp#Diary
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Written by Séamus Loughlin
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Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:06 |
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While many active trade unionists across the country will be pleased to hear that IMPACT and SIPTU among others are planning to escalate the wave of partial actions across the public sector, and that they will be pushing for escalation at the ICTU meeting on March 8th; at the same time they will be acutely aware of the need to demonstrate to their members that the action is having an affect on the government. We welcome Jack O’Connor’s remarks that workers need to be prepared to escalate the action, but we also recognise that the responsibility for coordinating the action and providing a national focus to the campaign lies firmly in the hands of the ICTU leaders.
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