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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7just maybe... he thinks that randsoming the nation isn't actually a particularly noble or right/left wing thint to do. Maybe, just maybe, it's just wrong???
Just because something's 'unioned' does not mean its good. They're not wedded. The Labour party have a duty to work towards the national interest, not vested interests. The same with FG, SF and FF - just that some of them are too spineless to do what needs to be done.
Fair play Rabitte, but methinks its probably just hot air.
Hardly the NUM are they?
well hes mad as a march hare if hes taking on the entire public service. its: SIPTU, TEEU, IMPACT, ATGWU, CPSU, PSEU etc. Why is that cwazy wabbit taking on such a large section of his natural constituency? its not just reactionary, its dumb as well. DeRossa specifally targetted public sector workers in 2004 by opposing decentralisation and supporting other issues raised by public sector unions.
as for the driver testing issue: its a question of outsourcing. the last national agreement had a clause that specifically banned outsourcing. now is the cwazy wabbit saying that in government he will tear up a deal whenever it suits him?
the driver test question is easily dealt with: employ more testers. its the Department of Finance who are blocking this. Finance are happy to pay more to outsource the work, showing that the Department is driven by ideology rather than any economic considerastions.
I think we can quietly forget about the idea that Rabbitte wants to defend the "national interest" against "vested interests". In the front-page article on the cover of the Irish TImes today, we also get the following: "Mr Rabbitte also said that if social partnership could not address the serious issue of job displacement and exploitation in the workplace, then there was something wrong with social partnership."
No crusading rhetoric there. No promises to lead the charge against vested interests. Because the vested interests in this case happen to be IBEC and the business elite, and Rabbitte has no intention of taking them on.
He doesn't even place the blame where it belongs - at the door of IBEC, who have been resisting even the most limited measures to protect working conditions. Instead, he suggests that there may possibly be something wrong with social partnership. Just maybe...
Of course, this is the same Rabbitte who made a calculated decision to blame foreign workers for the problem of displacement and exploitation, instead of pointing the finger at employers.
It's easy really if you bear in mind the following translations:
"The national interest" = "Rabbitte's desire to achieve government office at all costs"
"Vested interests" = "Any pressure group (especially trade unions) that attempts to challenge the main vested interest in Irish society, business"
We could do with a few NUMs on this side of the Irish sea.
A good deconstruction of the myth that is continually being propogated in the media that unions are responsible for the unacceptably long waiting lists for the driving test was recently published on Indymedia at
Its one thing to support unions, its another to act as if they cant do any wrong .Rabbitte was speaking common sense, and his views are in line with the majority of irish people.
And yes, unions are democratic organisations of working people. but if a union made up of 0.1% of the irish population strikes its not *always* democratic to back them.
So can you explain why Rabbitte didn't propose any similar crusade against IBEC, for obstructing measures to combat job displacement and exploitation? Wouldn't that be common sense too?
The simple fact is, your party leader is trying to outflank the current government from the right. First his attacks on immigrant workers, now this. Labour's drift from the most basic left-wing principles is clearer than ever.