OscailtDublin Bus Workers Reject the LRC Proposals...and de facto vote in favour of all out strike action
Breaking news: Italian MP, Sgarbi denounces the Statistical Fraud on COVID-19. The speech of the Member of Parliament Vittorio Sgarbi in the session of the Italian Camera, Meeting no. 331 of Friday 24, April, 2020. Vittorio Sgarbi, denounces the closure of 60% of the businesses for 25,000 COVID-19 Deaths, of which the National Institute of Health says 96.3% died NOT of COVID-19 but of other pathologies. That means only 925 have died of the virus. 24,075 have died of other things.2009-03-22T16:53:24+00:00Indymedia Irelandimc-ireland@lists.indymedia.iehttp://www.indymedia.ie/atomfullposts?story_id=91617http://www.indymedia.ie/graphics/feedlogo.gifsolidarityhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/91617#comment2481342009-03-22T16:53:24+00:00SCThanx for the overview. solidarty with bus workers!Thanx for the overview. solidarty with bus workers!.http://www.indymedia.ie/article/91617#comment2481412009-03-22T19:09:36+00:00.I didnt read it all but from what I read its ''good news''.I didnt read it all but from what I read its ''good news''.Great journalismhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/91617#comment2481972009-03-23T13:29:57+00:00D_DVery useful. Indymedia at its best,Very useful. Indymedia at its best,Irish media waging all out war against the strikehttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/91617#comment2482712009-03-24T09:28:06+00:00Miriam CottonGreat thread.
The mainstream media is gunning hard against this strike - it wil...Great thread.<br />
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The mainstream media is gunning hard against this strike - it will be relentless between now and Monday:<br />
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This needs to be countered - and very hard. Union organisers and members must put the word out that the mainstream media is the sworn enemy of all workers at this moment - pedalling fear and lies in equal measure. While many will of course know this perfectly well others again may well be intimidated by it - and it is intended to intimidate. We must let them feel our anger at their betrayal. The narrative is that it will put off foreign 'investors' and cause 'economic suicide'. Foreign investors being the people who have enjoyed billions from the public purse in subsidies, tax breaks, pathetic levels of corporation tax - all at the expense of small enterprises for whom running a business is made nigh on impossible - who must pay much higer rents, bank charges etc than the foreign divestors. Small businesses are the businesses on which our economy should really be built but they are pitilessly neglected and used. We don't want foreign investors on these economically suicidal terms - they've been a part of what created the problem. 3 million people marched in France recently, they are marchig and protesting all over the world and Ireland is no different. This isn't just about pay - it's about democracy itself and insisting the government abandons the policies which are destroying our country. <br />
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The Irish Examiner has been relentless in its attack on public sector workers. They and others are crowing about the Impact ballot result yesterday. As if a 65% vote in favour of the strike were not a ringing endorsement of it. I sincerely hope there was no funny business around the vote.<br />
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Strike called off after Labour Court interventionhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/91617#comment2485362009-03-26T19:10:44+00:00A.RThe strike at Dublin bus has been called off by SIPTU & NBRU after a Labour cour...The strike at Dublin bus has been called off by SIPTU & NBRU after a Labour court intervention, and an agreement by Dublin Bus management that they will not proceed with their cost cutting measures........<br />
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<a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0326/breaking87.htm" title="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0326/breaking87.htm">http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0326/...7.htm</a>merely deferredhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/91617#comment2485532009-03-26T23:26:09+00:0046AThe full story is that the cost-cutting measures have merely been deferred pendi...The full story is that the cost-cutting measures have merely been deferred pending an attempt to thrash out some sort of compromise before the Labour Court. This will probably see some sort of improvement in the redundancy terms and the cost-cutting programme phased over a slightly longer period.