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Pat Rabbitte and Immigration - Turning on workers?
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Thursday March 23, 2006 13:26 by WS - WSM wsm_ireland at yahoo dot com
Labour leader pat Rabbitte showed his opportunism when he called for a look at work visas for EU nationals. He raised the spectre of 40 million poles chasing “Irish Jobs”. It was a thoroughly disappointing turn by Labour but hardly surprising. Coming after the massive show of strength by the unions during the Irish Ferries dispute, this call succeeded in moving the debate away from workers rights and onto the basest populist nonsense. It pits worker against worker not worker against boss. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3For an article on the same issue by Aindrias O Cathasaigh, see Leftline, the online publication of the Irish Socialist Network:
http://www.irishsocialist.net/leftlineindesign.pdf
To read Labour Youths position go to:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74806
As one of the signatories of that Letter in the irish times, i am delighted to announce that we have succeded in having that policy suggestion dropped.