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Trade unionists urge workers to Vote no to pay deal .

category national | worker & community struggles and protests | press release author Monday September 29, 2008 21:34author by Trade unionist - Grassroots trade unionists conference Report this post to the editors

Open meeting to plan campaign against deal.

Trade unionists across all unions are today being urged to reject the proposed national pay agreement.

Following a conference of over 70 activists and union shop stewards a campaign is now being launched for the biggest no vote. The conference was organised by a number of trade union activists from both the private and public sector and addressed by Jimmy Kelly, regional secretary of Unite, one of Ireland’s largest unions. Kelly stated that the deal was an “effective pay cut which does not address any of our unions concerns on pensions, union recognition, or low pay.”

The conference also heard from public service workers representing nurses, teachers and the Dublin Fire Brigade. A number of speakers rejected attempts to scapegoat public sector workers as been somehow responsible for the economic crisis. They warned that emergency services where already deteriorating as a result of cut backs and management policies. One speaker pointed out that the recent OECD report showed that far from a bloated and inefficient public service we were spending less proportionally than a decade ago. Frontline staff like nurses and fire fighters saw first hand the effects this had in delivering a service to an expanding population,

The conference unanimously called on workers to reject the deal because:

• Proposed pay increases are less than inflation
• Public sector workers will get no pay increase for almost a year
• The needs of the lower paid are not addressed by this deal
• The deal delivers nothing on union recognition.

Many unions set out a number of “deal breakers” before the talk started. The deal fails to deliver on these deal breakers and leaves workers facing substantial wage cuts. A proposed 11 month pay pause for public service workers is a savage attack on thousands of lowly paid workers who are already struggling to cope with massive hikes in food and fuel bills and mortgage repayments.

The conference agreed to hold a further meeting on Monday Oct 6 Th to co ordinate a campaign for a no vote in workplaces across the country. The meeting will take place in the Teachers Club, Parnell Sq., Dublin, at 730. It is open to all interested in maximising a no vote across all unions and workplaces. Some workplaces are expected to begin voting on the deal in a matter of weeks.

This statement is issued by the following on behalf of those who attended the conference: (They attended as individual union activists and are speaking in a personal capacity; their union affiliation does not indicate that union’s position on the proposed national pay deal)

Jimmy Kelly. UNITE.
Des Derwin, SIPTU
John Kidd SIPTU
Kieran Allen SIPTU
Eddie Conlon TUI
Niall Smyth INTO
Bernard Lynch ASTI

For Confirmation Ph Eddie Conlon 087 6775468
Owen McCormack 087 2858388

author by Uncivil Servant - IMPACT memberpublication date Tue Sep 30, 2008 20:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Good to see someone opposing this deal. My union head ( McLoone)had the gall to tell the press that it was the best way to and I quote "protect incomes and jobs" !! So taking a pay cut and agreeing to massive redundancies in the health sector where I labour is the best way to protect jobs and incomes.. what was it the US general said during the Vietnam war.. we had to destroy the village in order to save it!!

author by tomeilepublication date Wed Oct 01, 2008 16:09author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The conference rejected a pay pause ,but really what is on the cards is the decimation of real wages as well as the slashing and scrapping of such limited social gains made by organized labour over the years in such areas as health care ,education and social welfare . Real ,non-fictitious capital is urgently needed to prop up the profit system and that can only be wrung from the labour of the working class – the only source of true value . That truth which is now apparent to even the most craven apologists for capitalism is what needs to be addressed .The implications are revolutionary .

In order to pay for the billions of euros needed to pay off speculators’ and bankers’ debts there will have to be class war and attacks of an unprecedented scale on the living standards of the working class in the coming period : Partnership can only mean collusion in those attacks . The teachers club meeting should at least make a start on outlining a defensive strategy for workers - one capable of linking to broader sections of the community such as the unemployed and to the middle class thousands of who will now be fearing the loss of their homes as cash for mortgages dries up.

author by Trade Unionist - Grassroots trade unionists conferencepublication date Wed Oct 01, 2008 21:28author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Interesting point, certainly some one ( the working class) will be asked to pay for both the general economic crisis and the states bail out of the Irish banking system. The first line of attack will be this national pay deal. If acccepted it will pave the way for more attacks. More rationalisations, more redundancies in the public services, more demands for flexibility. Ultimately the attacks will go on to those relying on social welfare and other services. Mondays meet will be about getting the word to as many workplaces as possible to vote no. Come along if you can.

 
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