Launch of Independent Workers Union

national | anti-capitalism | press release

Thursday March 25, 2004 09:33

by Independent Workers Union (IWU) - Independent Workers Union (IWU)

Launch of Independent Trade Union

Independent Workers Union (IWU)

1st annual conference

9:00 am - 5:00pm, 3rd April 2004, Victoria Hotel, Patrick St. Cork City

Guest of honour...Mick O?Reilly AT&GWU

The newly formed Independent Workers Union (IWU) will be publicly launched
at its first conference in the Victoria Hotel, Cork City on Saturday 3rd, April.

The IWU will not seek affiliation to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions believing that the so-called Partnership is detrimental to the interests of Irish Workers and that meaningful partnership with this Government, IBEC and the ISME is a delusion and no beneficial results have emerged or will emerge for working people.

This government is:
* Pressing ahead with privitisation
* Not implementing a fair and equitable tax system
* Jailing workers for opposing service charges
* Refusing to introduce pro worker legislation
* Tolerating and/or encouraging dismally low wages in many sectors

And while the current government does this:
* Workers are being policed by their own trade unions and the ICTU
* Democratic decisions of trade union members are overturned by the union
leadership
* Worker are prevented from leaving one Congress Union to join another

A new union is needed where decision making by members is given primacy, where the assets of the Irish people are defended, where genuine democracy is practised and where a fairer and more equitable way of running this country is advocated and promoted. That union - the IWU - will be launched on 3rd April in Cork City.

ENDS

For confirmation contact:
National Secretary Noel Murphy
IWU Head Office, 55 North Main Street, Cork City.

Phone: ROI: 021 4277151 /
/ Mobile: 087 9068460

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