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Sunday September 21, 2003 19:54 by sr
Ahern turns his back on protests As the hard-pressed Irish working class protest against his distorted taxation policies, Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Bertram Ahern will leave for a four day tour of the USA. Bertram Ahern, who prefers to be known as "Bertie", is facing protests being held on Monday by anti-privatisation campaigners objecting to a form of secondary taxation being imposed on local communities under the guise of a "bin tax". The protests have let to the one month sentence on an opposition member of the Irish parliament, and a member of a local council. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2SIPTU is considering industrial action, and has invited residents organisations to a meeting on Wednesday. The TEEU is calling on other unions and trade councils to consider involvement in a campaign to end bin charges:
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=80728982&p=8x7z9688&n=80729742
Ahern said tonight that Gregory was "a nice guy":
http://www.rte.ie/news/2003/0921/bins.html
Given that Tony Gregory is supporting the protests, the independent TD, from Dublin's north inner city may have to decide fairly soon whether he intends to remain a "nice Guy"!
The story refers to the TEEU, not SIPTU, but I'm beginning to get some good feedback from individual members of various unions.