OscailtStriking Green Isle workers set for hunger strikeTEEU says hunger strike at Green Isle Foods will last until dispute ends
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.2010-02-16T22:42:03+00:00Indymedia Irelandimc-ireland@lists.indymedia.iehttp://www.indymedia.ie/atomfullposts?story_id=95816http://www.indymedia.ie/graphics/feedlogo.gifSupport the Green Isle workershttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/95816#comment2653272010-02-16T22:42:03+00:00Saoirsesaoirse at iol dot ieStatement by the President of Republican Sinn Féin Des Dalton
In a statement the...Statement by the President of Republican Sinn Féin Des Dalton<br />
In a statement the Kildare based President of Republican Sinn Féin Des Dalton expressed support for the striking workers in Green Isle , Naas, Co Kildare who have announced their intention to begin a hunger strike in their almost six-month long dispute. Des Dalton is also Vice President of the Athy/Kildare Branch of SIPTU.<br />
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Shop Steward Jim Wyse will commence a hunger strike tomorrow (February 17). If the company continue to refuse to accept the Labour Court recommendations a worker will join the hunger strike on each subsequent Wednesday. <br />
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“The workers at Green Isle have fought a lengthy battle to save jobs and to uphold the basic principles of justice in the workplace. Green Isle have refused to engage with the workers or their union the TEEU or accept the recommendation of the Labour Court that the workers they dismissed be reinstated without loss of pay. Instead they have used scab labour in an attempt to break the will of the workers and their union.<br />
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“The Green Isle workers have been forced to take the grave decision to embark on a hunger strike and it is the duty of all workers to rally to their support. Green Isle products should be boycotted and the general workforce at the plant must now come out in support of their fellow workers and bring this dispute to a head. No right won by working people has been gifted from above but has only come as a result of organised struggle. A class war is being waged on the working people of Ireland and it is time to fight back.” Des Dalton said.<br />
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Video of Oct 31st protest in Naashttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/95816#comment2653232010-02-17T11:32:23+00:00Trade Union TVKildare Trades Council has backed the strikers and has called a March for Justic...Kildare Trades Council has backed the strikers and has called a March for Justice in Naas to support the strikers on Saturday 31st October, assembling at 2pm outside the Kildare County Council offices in Devoy House, Naas.<br />
Green Isle Foods of Naas, County Kildare, the makers of Goodfellas pizzas, are currently trying to break the union after sacking 35 workers on trumped up charges .<br />
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The strike of 35 engineers which has been ongoing at Green Isle for two months involves the sacking of other workers on separate specious charges who had become aware through company IT carelessness of Green Isle's plans to get rid of workers.<br />
The company refuses to deal with the issues through negotiation with the trade union, the TEEU.<br />
Collections and contributions to the strike fund; Current account, Uster Bank, Main St, Clane. Account No 10215914, Sort Code 985454.Boycott Goodfellashttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/95816#comment2653242010-02-17T11:42:42+00:00VillagerDisgraceful behaviour by Green Isle. Just came across this boycott Goodfellas ca...Disgraceful behaviour by Green Isle. Just came across this boycott Goodfellas campaign on facebook which is in support of the Green Isle workers<br />
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php#" title="http://www.facebook.com/home.php#">http://www.facebook.com/home.php#</a>!/pages/Boycott-Goodfellas-pizza/289963954975?ref=mfAthy SIPTU Support strikehttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/95816#comment2653902010-02-19T07:58:06+00:00connolly todaythe Athy/Kildare branch of SIPTU has donated 500 Euro to the Green Isle strike f...the Athy/Kildare branch of SIPTU has donated 500 Euro to the Green Isle strike fund. RSF's President Des Dalton is also a Vice President of the Athy/Kildare Branch of SIPTU.Obdurate champions of the Green Isle reduxhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/95816#comment2654222010-02-20T12:31:41+00:00Cecil RIf neither General Secretary Designate, Mr. Eamon Devoy, for all his militancy a...If neither General Secretary Designate, Mr. Eamon Devoy, for all his militancy and bombast, nor “ President” Dalton of the RSF (also vice President of SIPTU in Athy – clearly a man fond of grandiloquent titles) can even get the other workers in the place to come out what possible hope is there in this – there must be little sympathy for this cause. The importation of the hunger strike weapon to an IR dispute simply demonstrates that IR issues should not get tangled up with the likes of RSF. That is the kiss of death for any cause. Any sensible trade unionist would run a mile from anything to do with RSF. All we need now is for the armed wing of the RSF to get involved too and we will have a fine old mess arising from such humble beginnings. Ooohh Cecil!http://www.indymedia.ie/article/95816#comment2654242010-02-20T15:07:56+00:00Northside Dublin WorkerConservation between Cecil and his fellow upper middle class Kilmacud cronies: "...Conservation between Cecil and his fellow upper middle class Kilmacud cronies: " Ooohh Cecil! Isn't absolutely outrageous that those god damn slaves (ooohh sorry I meant workers) have the cheek to go on strike. Hear! Hear! I agree time to bring back the death penality for anyone going on strike as they're commiting treason I say. Don't you agree my boy? Time to get our pals in the Independent Newspaper Group and RTE to start a vicious hate campaign against them as they have already quite successfully done with those lazy good for nothing civil servants and public service workers."<br />
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That seems to be the gist of what you are saying Cecil. Instead of attacking the strikers why don't you have positive solutions to offer? Btw. With a few honourable exceptions the name Cecil is associated with an upper middle class background.