Thursday, Mar 11th 2010
John Recto, the third man to join the Green Isle Foods hunger strike today had to call to Naas Garda Station this morning, where he was informed that his work visa has not been renewed. He was told he has until March 8th to leave the country. He is from the Philippines and has been [...]
Interview with Green Isle hunger strikers
Interview with Green Isle hunger strikers from Frank Schnittger on Vimeo.
Strikes and more strikes confront the social-democratic PASOK Government in Greece
Public sector workers, supported by many Trade Unionists from the private sector responded massively yesterday, Wednesday February 10th, to their Union call for a 24-hour strike in Athens. At the same time, leaders of the two Greek left wing organisations Syriza and the Greek Communist [...]
The cancellation of yesterday’s strike was a blow to the developing movement against the cuts on the scale of the cancellation of the March 30th strike at the start of the year. The so called compromise ICTU have been negotiating for is a further blow, it seems designed to drive a wedge between workers and [...]
Pue’s Occurrences | Historian Brian Hanley on Today’s Strike
Brian Hanley, author with Scott Miller of The Lost Revolution has some thoughts on the issue of whether those working in universities and colleges should join the strike today and provides his own thoughts on the matter. There is also a good discussion in the comments [...]
Everyone knows the Irish Examiner is a Fine Gael newspaper and everyone equally knows that even if Fianna Fail is being obnoxious about public sector workers, Fine Gael would be even worse. The incessant cry from FG over the past two years has been for the savaging of the sector. ‘More! More!’ they scream like a mob [...]
In a sign of things to come, whatever the result of the next General Election, Ken Clarke has announced Tory plans to sell off the Royal Mail. The democratic choice facing the electorate will be a Tory full-blooded privatisation or a Labour part-privatisation, with the Liberal Democrats also supporting the latter option. Such a democratic [...]
Sometimes, something happens that takes your breath away. The chain store Boots is engaged in a deplorable assault on their employees’ wages and working conditions - employees who are some of the lowest paid in the economy. Not only that, it constitutes an assault upon other enterprises, the Exchequer and the Irish economy.
Let’s do some [...]
Imagine you’re walking a high-wire. You’re nearly at the end of line. You’re doing everything possible not to fall - balancing with your arms, moving snail-like, praying; the last thing you need is for some messer to start shaking the wire. That’s exactly what the Government is preparing to do as it mulls over its [...]