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Irish Ferries: SIPTU General Officers request every member of SIPTU to support the National Protest.
The General Officers of SIPTU have circulated all SIPTU activists "requesting every member to support the National Protest on Friday 9 September". The General Officers of SIPTU have circulated (29th November) all SIPTU activists "requesting every member to support the National Protest on Friday 9 September". They are "also requesting every member to participate in the protest rallies on that day". There are to be rallies outside Dublin too.
It's EXPLICIT: though SIPTU is not instructing anyone, the General Officers are putting their authority behind the request. (In SIPTU this de facto has the same weight as any formal decision or instruction.)
The request is explicit. The unstated implications are as unambiguous. They are "requesting" all SIPTU members (on leave, off work, at work in factories, shops, public services, airports, transport, newspapers, broadcasting, ESB, etc., etc.) with no 'ifs or buts', except, of course, for essential and emergency services, to go, whether or not they are working at the time, to join the rallies. In Dublin the protest march will commence at Parnell Square at 1.30 p.m. on Friday 9th.
I congratulate Jack O‘Connor, Brendan Hayes and Joe O’Flynn on their stand.
The circular in full is:
29 November 2005
To Each Workplace Representative and Shop Steward
A Chara,
Re: Job Displacement and Exploitation in Irish Ferries
The key issues of Job Displacement and Exploitation have been dramatically highlighted in the Irish Ferries Dispute.
The workers in Irish Ferries are battling to defend their jobs and agreed terms of employment, which have been upheld by the Labour Court. The Company intends to replace them with vulnerable workers paid less than the National Minimum Wage. To this end, they have employed strong-arm tactics the likes of which are unprecedented in modern Irish industrial relations. Their objective and the methods they have employed to achieve it have been roundly condemned across the social spectrum. In this regard alone, the workers in Irish Ferries deserve the full and unequivocal support of every Trade Union member and indeed every decent person in the country.
The issue, however, extends away beyond Irish Ferries because Job Displacement and Exploitation are already well underway in our economy. Indeed, it is very clear that the fight of the Irish Ferries workers is everybody’s fight.
Accordingly, we are requesting every member to support the National Protest on Friday 9 December, which has been called in solidarity with the Irish Ferries workers, and to call on the Government to act to address the issues of Job Displacement, Exploitation and the Protection of Employment Standards.
We are also requesting every member to participate in the protest rallies on that day (details will be available from your Branch and published in the national newspapers) and to endeavour, as far as possible, to persuade others, e.g. family members etc to do so as well.
Sinne le meas,
Jack O’Connor (President), Brendan Hayes (Vice-President), Joe O’Flynn (General Secretary).
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3The Irish Socialist Netowork has published a leaflet for this demo. You can download it from our website or by going direct to the following URL:
http://www.irishsocialist.net/Irish_Ferries_Leaflet%5B1%5D.doc
I must admit a degree of confusion on this. By no means do I mean to articulate the class composition for a generation within the unions, but certainly within the above notice I feel a loss - because it asks for us to voluntertly leave our jobs and join the demo. But that seems to be a nicely articultated possibility for left bureaucrats in SITPU or those in a job for life in the sense of tradionally orangised workplaces - but when will SIPTU actively come to me and organise a leaflett and place me in a position where I can feel comfortably expressing my solidarity on this demo with out feeling isolated, vulnerable and alone - with a union with that is firing out the rethoric without the concrete organisation to back it;. Im afraid that 1:30pm is my smoke break, and untill SIPTU puts me in the prescence of mind of backing the union grassroots by organising them, from my perspective isolated in the services sector I remain non-chalent.
Would d/other please resign from his union immediately. Unions need people, not sheep.