Ireland
"Greedy bankers": a facebook argument preserved for posterity
By popular demand, a facebook argument over the pictured posters.
weeler: Recessions are inherent in the boom bust cycle of capital, "greedy bankers" are a scapegoat distracting from the fact that this will happen again and again and again. Blaming them implies you could have a nicer capitalism with good bankers, this is social democracy at best.
Choccy: embarrassing
After the Guildford Four - The Red Menace
Article examining the case of the Guildford 4 following their release in October 1989, and placing it in a broader context of state repression.
"Wrongfully convicted prisoners should stay in jail rather than be freed and risk a loss of public confidence in the law." (Lord Denning, 21/2/88)
"Prison is a killer- everything about it is designed to kill and destroy the human being." (Johnny Walker, one of the Birmingham 6)
Thomas Cook Dublin: Workers Released
The 28 workers arrested this morning for occupying the Grafton Street outlet of Thomas Cook were released this afternoon after agreeing not to resume their occupation or damage the property of Thomas Cook.
On Friday 31 July Thomas Cook managers and security went to close down shops in Dublin at 10 a.m. Over 70 staff were sacked and offered an appalling 5 weeks redundancy pay with the threat that it would be dropped to two weeks if the workers did not accept it. Staff in two of the outlets then occupied their workplaces in response.
Protests due after police raid Thomas Cook occupation in Dublin
Protests have been called at short notice in Dublin and Belfast after 28 workers occupying Thomas Cook offices in Dublin's Grafton Street fighting jobs cuts were arrested this morning.
Protesting former workers at travel operator Thomas Cook in Dublin were arrested after after early-morning Garda raids for defying a court order to end a four-day sit-in at company premises in a dispute over redundancy payments.
Thomas Cook outlets in Dublin occupied against closure
On Friday 31 July Thomas Cook managers and security went to close down shops in Dublin at 10 a.m. Staff in two of the outlets then occupied their workplaces in response.
The workers, some of whom are members of the Transport and Salaried Staff Association (TSSA), have since been served a court ordered to leave the premises but are refusing to budge.
The counter-revolution in Ireland - Serge Van Der Straeten and Philippe Daufouy
Article looking at the national liberation of Ireland, and its relation to the development of capitalism.
The rich always betray the poor. - Henry Joy McCracken
Tesco threaten to lock out staff in Cork
Management at Tesco in Douglas, Cork have threatened staff with a lockout until June.
The Douglas staff began an official strike today (29 April 2009) due to the company ignoring long standing agreements with their Trade Union, Mandate.
Workers said that management told them that if they go on strike today, the store would remain closed until June and they wouldn’t receive any pay until then.
Bus worker wildcats spread across Dublin north
The wildcat strike action taken by Dublin Bus drivers has spread to four new garages as the dispute enters its third day.
The dispute began on Sunday after a driver at the Harristown depot was suspended when he refused to work a new schedule.
The 450 staff at the Harristown depot stopped work in solidarity with the driver before the dispute spread to the Clontarf depot.
At present just two depots are operating (based in South Dublin) with almost all of the North Dublin routes brought to a total standstill.
Unions head off transport workers' struggles in Ireland, airport wildcats planned
Members of SIPTU at the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) last week served notice of strike action on Thursday (1st April) at Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports, but a spokesman for the union said no official sanction had been given for any industrial action at the airports.
The threat came as SIPTU and the National Bus and Rail Union (NBRU) agreed to suspend industrial action due to begin tomorrow in protest at €31m in cutbacks. But no sooner had one industrial action been suspended when another kicked in.
Huge protests over handling of the Irish economy
About 100,000 people have taken part in protests in Dublin city centre yesterday (Saturday 21st) to vent their anger at the Irish government's handling of the country's recession.
They oppose plans to impose a 'pension levy' (real terms 10% pay cut) on 350,000 public sector workers. Trade union organisers of the march said workers did not cause the economic crisis but were having to pay for it.
