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Unions Close Down France: Where Are The Irish Unions?

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Thursday January 29, 2009 21:26

by Miriam

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The Wrong People Are Doing The Fearing

Signs are already that the chemical castration of the Irish Unions from long-term immersion in the toxic environment of the Social Partnership has been completed. Reports are that they are preparing to slink away from IBEC and Fianna Fail without so much as a whimper about bailouts and other blindingly obvious transfers of enormous wealth from the poor to the rich at a time when the flow should be going in the other direction.

The French are having none of it - a million of them have shut France down today in protest at bailouts and job cuts:

Rank and file union members in Ireland NEED to get angry about what is being done. Their leaderships are virtually useless. Even the INTO, despite over 100K marching in recent weeks against education cuts, ruled out strikes from the very outset! What sort of a union is that? New leadership is urgently needed if people are to be protecting from the icy blast of the neo-conservative policies that are being railroaded through as 'emergency measures'.

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Comments (36 of 36)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	RTE dutifully toning the story down, as ever	Miriam	Thu Jan 29, 2009 18:27
2	A Fearmonger.	.	Thu Jan 29, 2009 21:34
3	what's to lose?	lulu	Thu Jan 29, 2009 21:57
4	Every body is For Sale	Michael.	Thu Jan 29, 2009 22:34
5	New french unemployed figures not released because statisticians were on strike	staunch statistician	Thu Jan 29, 2009 23:30
6	things fall apart . . . .	bjork fan	Thu Jan 29, 2009 23:37
7	Developers whistling and looking into air over loan repayments	on primetime	Thu Jan 29, 2009 23:48
8	a Hungarian protesting in the streets of Paris...	redjade	Fri Jan 30, 2009 00:52
9	another pic	ec	Fri Jan 30, 2009 00:58
10	Report in Irish Times 30 January	Miriam	Fri Jan 30, 2009 02:29
11	Stop Press	Miriam	Fri Jan 30, 2009 02:40
12	union failure	tonyc	Fri Jan 30, 2009 03:16
13	French press this morning	Miriam	Fri Jan 30, 2009 07:07
14	People are being betrayed	Karel	Fri Jan 30, 2009 09:41
15	Patronising workers	Worker	Fri Jan 30, 2009 11:26
16	solutions	Ferg	Fri Jan 30, 2009 15:03
17	Pictures	Anonymous	Fri Jan 30, 2009 15:41
18	France: millions strike and march against Sarkozy and capitalism	Darren C	Fri Jan 30, 2009 16:28
19	Using diverse strategies to win?? Is victory over the bosses on your agenda, 'Worker'?	Also a Worker	Fri Jan 30, 2009 16:43
20	One Small Organisation - One Big Step	Michael Gallagher	Fri Jan 30, 2009 18:32
21	Social Parnership be damned	Miriam	Fri Jan 30, 2009 18:37
22	Paris Declaration From European Social Movements	ec	Fri Jan 30, 2009 18:59
23	Anger on Irish airwaves	Ray Darcy listener	Fri Jan 30, 2009 19:19
24	stuff is happening	shea	Fri Jan 30, 2009 19:31
25	How bad does it have to get till workers become revolutionary?	Tough times call for tough action	Fri Jan 30, 2009 20:06
26	Occupation	Just -In	Fri Jan 30, 2009 21:12
27	Wake Up	Arm-a-Gedden	Sat Jan 31, 2009 00:51
28	somebody give them a pc with a mobile modem	.	Sat Jan 31, 2009 00:59
29	governments tremble across europe	.	Sat Jan 31, 2009 13:14
30	Biffo and Obama	Bronterre O'Brien	Sat Jan 31, 2009 15:01
31	Ahhh Luke.........you saw from miles away.	Michael Gallagher	Sat Jan 31, 2009 15:54
32	Another world is not only possible, it is necessary!	dunk	Sat Jan 31, 2009 18:38
33	The Starry Plough, flag of the Irish Citizen Armym flying in Waterford tonight	dunk	Sat Jan 31, 2009 18:47
34	Let's get our terms straight!	Patricius pseudo-Hibernicus	Sat Jan 31, 2009 19:34
35	Yes we must!	Maura Harrington	Sat Jan 31, 2009 19:38
36	Laughable in some ways	Felim	Sat Jan 31, 2009 20:41

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