Monday, May 21st 2012
It is hard to know where to begin a rant on this dreadful deal. I won’t and instead want to point to four external and macro consequences. Four consequences of the deal for all workers, including private sector workers, and for the public at large, especially the poorest part of it.
(The details of the deal [...]
[Statement from the National Public Services Alliance]
The “public service deal” is historic betrayal of public service union members by ICTU and its Public Services Negotiating Committee of general secretaries.
National Public Services Alliance calls on the elected national executives of individual unions to reject these destructive proposals without ballot where rules permit.
Should national executives put these [...]
Kim Ives of Haiti Liberte | Amid Official Mea Culpas, Port-au-Prince and Washington Tussel over Reconstruction
Perhaps this is the way it is now in the age of Obama, where the words sound terrific, but reality is something else entirely. Talk of peace means more war. Talk of reigning in medical insurance companies means making mandatory [...]
David L. Wilson, “”Rebuilding Haiti” — the Sweatshop Hoax”
People in the United States tend to think irrationally about things like job creation. Many of us believe that immigration reduces the number of jobs available for U.S. citizens, while the same people often swallow the idea that building new industrial parks in Port-au-Prince will magically [...]
Is Not How It Looks. She is Just My Assistant
The appalling latest news in the world of celebrity “entertainment,” which was come out of the blue only this week, is the confession from Latin heart-thrub and all-round croner Randy Martin that he has been leading a double-life all this time. In secret, and behind everyone’s [...]
[Speech by Arthur Morgan TD, Sinn Féin's Finance Spokesperson delivered in the Dail yesterday in response to Minister Lenihan's announcement of the recapitalisation details following the beginning of the process to move the loans to NAMA]
You do not have the authority to implement a bank bailout of this scale. Your government is at record lows [...]
[Labour Party Finance Spokesperson Joan Burton's speech to the Dail after Finance Minister Brian Lenihan announced the details of the recapitalisation of Irish banks after loans had been taken into NAMA]
The Irish taxpayer is today seeing the costs and consequences of crony Irish capitalism.
Today’s recapitalisation and transfer of assets to NAMA is socialism for bankers [...]
An Saoi: Lies, Damn Lies & Irish Economic Statistics - A Basic Lesson in Corporate Tax Planning
An Saoi on why Ireland is the centre of corporate tax planning internationally, and why companies, like Google who pay hardly any tax on their earnings here, also provide much of the supposed ‘exports’ that we are told is [...]
[Statement issued by CPSU, 19 March 2010. Apologies for the delay. It is reproduced here by way of balance to the Irish media coverage of protests against current government economic policy.]
The Civil Public and Service Union which represents lower paid clerical workers in the Civil Service says today’s (Friday) debacle at the Passport Office in [...]
The economist Michael Burke has an article in Tribune Magazine which makes the point, for a UK audience being sold the Conservative Party line, that austerity measures are economically counter-productive, and that during a period which has seen such a significant decline in private investment and consumer spending the last thing a government should do [...]
