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Thursday September 25, 2003 14:51
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7Unions are a joke these days.
Most of the people involved these days seem to be in it for themselves and not for the "people".
Its the only protest the unions will listen to
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http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=61290&condense_comments=false&#comment47441
Below is a link to the disgraceful statement issued by Congress - it basically echoes the sentiments expressed by DB on Morning Ireland this morning. How dare he accuse us of being mislead, how dare he claim to speak for 700,000 people - you only had to look around at the union banners (not that there were too many) on Monday outside Mountjoy to know that he does not and can not speak for the membership on this issue. The DCTU, BATU, ATGWU and the TEEU are all backing this campaign - who does Begg speak for?
This man has no credibility as a trade unionist. He represents nobody other than a cabal of out of touch, overpaid lackeys who have assumed the leadership of the trade union movement. He is simply a professional leech.
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so why the hell would ICTU be in favour of a bin tax, which is the first step to privatising waste collection?
My dad worked for Limerick city corpo collecting bins. Now it's privatised in Limerick, and those jobs are gone.
If the bin-tax is resisted, then it will not be viable to privatise the collection.
If the bin-tax is not defeated then people will have to accept paying for waste twice.
This lucrative situation will of course see private operators coming in, and plenty of redundancies.
It's not in the interest of Dublin bin collectors to support an unfair tax that endangers their own jobs.