SIPTU conference issues radical call for a 30 hour working week

national | miscellaneous | news report Sunday August 31, 2003 00:11 by Labour Party and SIPTU member

This puts clear water between the radical but achievable and realisible policies of the labour movement and the ultra left positions adopted by micro parties such as Sinn Fein and the SP

The successful conference held in Galway all week has taken up a policy which micro parties such as SF and the SP would be afraid to touch, and will never talk about but which will make a real and liberating difference to real working people. The union's equality officer Roseen Callender talked about Irish workers working the longest hours in the EU and the union's call for the 30 hour working week was even covered in the mainstrean media! Equally as important was the welcome news that union's Political Fund Commission decided to recommend the continuing of financial support for the Labour party (needless to say affiliation will continue). It is by such unity and a uniquely close relationship that the labout movement will fight and win and implement radical and real policies such as the 30 hour week.