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Search words: Gearid Loingsigh Open letter to Siptu re threats made by Siptu to Sinaltrainal
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Wednesday December 08, 2004 13:29 by Lasc - Lasc colombia at lasc dot ie
Siptu hreatens to run campaign against Colombian union Below is the text of an open letter to Siptu re the threats made by Anne Speed and Jack McGinley to run a campaign against the Colombian union Sinaltrainal. Open Letter to Siptu General President Re International Campaign Against Sinaltrainal. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11You do an excellent job on keeping us informed of the true nature of the rotten leadership.
They show the true nature of modern day solidarity within the Trade Union Movement i.e. partnership with neoliberal governments, multinationals, the bosses and death squads.
Any response yet to your letter?
Whats the news on Francisco?
Jack and Ann are doing their jobs, protecting the rights of irish workers. They are to be congratulated. Tell the Colombian communists where to stick their boycott/
The comment above this one about SIPTU doing their job is appalingly ignorant of the histroy of the working class and trade union movement.
International Labour is supposed to transcend the artificial construct that is the nation-state and show support and unconditional solidarity to those oppressed around the globe.
SIPTU are a disgrace and should be disbanded.
We share a common humanity and have to fight and oppose human rights abuses, oppression explotation and violence wherever we find it. To facilitate and encourage it in the name of making a quick buck is morallyu repugnant.
Maybe SIPTU were bought off by Coca-Cola here?
He's right! Why should the jobs of the Einsatz have been in jeopardy just becuase they were shoving people into ovens.
In reality, the very notion that Coca Cola would turn around and tell consumers that if they chose not to drink Coke, they were hurting Irish workers, says a lot about their inability to come up with any valid riposte to the charges against them.
Well if Jack and Ann were sensible trade Unionists they would line up with people with common interest as their own say for example hmmm .... maybe other workers
Jack and Ann have common interests, they just don't see them as being with other workers that is all.
In relation to whether we have received a response to the letter; no we have not. We await a reply from Siptu.
The silence is deafening. Either it is not official policy or it is. It shouldn't be too hard to come up with a reply.
There was an article in this week's An Phoblacht/Republican News about "SIPTU rep's solidarity visit to Colombia" (it can be read here: http://www.anphoblacht.com/news/detail/7775 )
It featured an interview with Ann Speed. Maybe someone from LASC or anyone else involved in the boycott campaign can write in a letter about the issues being addressed (or not being addressed, as the case may be).
The interview with Anne Speed in An Phoblacht (above) indicates the total nonsense represented by O'Loinsigh's 'open letter’.
O'Loinsigh's sectarianism is indicated by the fact that his first instinct was attack, just after SIPTU had brought Sinaltainal into discussion with European Coca Cola workers and had raised the issue with other Coca Cola workers and with Coca Cola management.
Here was a golden opportunity for O'Loinsigh to work with SIPTU, since they had made efforts to work with Sinaltrainal, despite opposition to the boycott. Here was an opportunity to put the past behind and to try and resolve this difficulty. Publicise it sure, if the response is not satisfactory.
But no, O'Loinsigh's first and only instinct is to attack publicly and to reinforce and deepen the suspicion and paranoia. He does not even pick up the telephone to communicate his concern, to ask if perhaps this is a misunderstanding, because it just doesn't make sense. The facts contradict it.
O’Loinsigh has brought his personal political opinions and history into solidarity work. He is prepared to sacrifice and to sabotage the possibility of joint work (even on the basis of disagreements) for the sake of scoring a cheap political hit whose content has no basis. The proof: the European Works Council Coca Cola meeting that SIPTU ensured Sinaltrainal was invited to, after meeting them in Colombia. That is unforgivable.
As for a reply from SIPTU, did they bother to send one? I’m sure that Gearoid would have brought it to our attention and would have put it on the table as quickly as he possibly could. (Yeah, right.)
i am a member of siptu ,it is with great sadness thatm i have to say ,that our secretary has decided to put me on a black list ,reason being that i desagreed with his way of handling my problem,that i had with my bosses,he has actualy made things worse, so i went to my bosses and explained my side now things are a little betterat , so union sec has told other members to black list me which most of them has refused his request, tell me why should anyone pay to be bullied, i hope u will deal with him and any others like him that are out there.if not i will.