Ballybrack Three Statement On Thir Release From Prison

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Saturday February 25, 2006 15:57

by Keith Kelly, Andrew Clarke,Billy McClur g - Dun Laoghaoire People Before Profit

Statement from the Ballybrack Three

Statement from the Ballybrack Three

We thank the staff and our fellow prisoners of Mountjoy Jail for their courtesy and kindness and the patrons and staff of Mick’s Kitchen. We would like to thank Richard Boyd Barrett of the People before Profit Alliance/Davitt League, for all the work and effort he has put in on our behalf. We’d like to thank the B.A.T.U officials and our families, friends and every bricklayer, carpenter, labourer and all trades and all the people who supported us.

The issues that we tried to highlight by our protest are still there.

1. As long as rogue builders are allowed to use bogus subcontractors to drive a coach and four through the Registered Employment Agreement by employing non-union labour.
2. As long as major contractors are allowed to breach the tax code, on publicly funded projects. By non-payment of P.R.S.I, through the use of the C45 scam.
3. As long as our fellow workers are being maimed and killed because builders are failing to implement integrated safety plans on site, because of the use of multiple contractors.
4. As long as widows and orphans are being left destitute because builders are criminally not paying into the pension fund, thereby depriving dependants of mortality benefits of their loved ones.
5. As long as the authorities fail to take action over all these abuses there will be other men willing to stand up and be counted.

To all men and women whose rights are being trampled on, on building sites, everywhere in Ireland, our message to you is throw off your shackles of fear, stand up for your rights and join a union.

BILLY MCCLURG KEITH KELLY ANDREW CLARKE