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ICTU’s 10 Point Plan: Is it fairer or better?
By Kevin McLoughlin
ICTU’s PLAN was to threaten a national strike on 30 March in the hope of forcing new negotiations around their 10 point so-called social solidarity programme There is a better, fairer way.
ICTU’s social solidarity programme relates to jobs, unemployment, pay and the banks. It says those who lose their jobs should be kept at 80% of their earnings for two years, via social welfare, on condition that they go on retraining. It also says bosses should resist lay-offs, and instead consider cutting the working week.
Socialist Party expresses solidarity with Element Six workers
Members of the Socialist Party in Limerick went out to the Element Six plant in Shannon Industrial Estate on 28 July, to express our solidarity with the workers' struggle against the companies job massacre, and terrible redundancy package. Here we reproduce the solidarity statement distributed