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Wednesday January 04, 2006 17:24

by Joe Higgins T.D. - Socialist Party

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Labour Leader and SIPTU President Pointing in Completely Wrong Direction

Key is Militant Trade Union Strategy to Flush Out Cheap Labour Employers Rather Than EU Work Permits

The Labour Party leader Pat Rabbitte’s assertion that work permits for workers from certain E.U. States might need to be looked at in future has been supported by Mr. Jack O’ Connor, President of SIPTU.

Both the Labour Party leader and SIPTU President are pointing in a completely wrong direction.

There is exploitation of migrant labour in this State and there is a persistent strategy in some industries to undercut trade union rates of pay by abusing the availability of workers from Eastern Europe.

The answer is not to raise a call for work permits, which give further powers to bosses to exploit. The answer is for the trade union movement to launch a militant strategy to flush out cheap labour employers.

This would involve considerable resources in terms of personnel, time and industrial action to isolate industrialists who seek to undercut trade union rates of pay. It would pro-actively recruit the tens of thousands of migrant workers into the trade union movement. It would make this State a no go area for cheap labour bosses and exploitative practices.

It is clear from the magnificent turnout of working people in opposition to Irish Ferries’ “slave labour” strategy on December 9th, that workers in this State, both Irish born and migrant, would strongly support such an approach.

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Comments (36 of 36)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	Good point against politricks	barra	Wed Jan 04, 2006 18:27
2	Rabbitte bizarre and disturbing	Jonah	Wed Jan 04, 2006 18:44
3	Labour are anti immigrant	Labour watch	Wed Jan 04, 2006 20:39
4	Take politics out of the picture and then look at it.	Seán Ryan	Thu Jan 05, 2006 05:47
5	Listen ...	observer	Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:34
6	Fantasies?	Topper	Thu Jan 05, 2006 14:09
7	Topper my friend	Observer	Thu Jan 05, 2006 14:24
8	Attacks On Migrant Workers	pat c	Thu Jan 05, 2006 14:32
9	Support for town migrant workers	pat c	Thu Jan 05, 2006 14:48
10	Pat C	observer	Thu Jan 05, 2006 14:48
11	observor	pat c	Thu Jan 05, 2006 14:58
12	Pat C	observer	Thu Jan 05, 2006 15:10
13	Foreign delivery men 'being attacked by racists in Dublin'	redjade	Thu Jan 05, 2006 15:23
14	observor	pat c	Thu Jan 05, 2006 15:39
15	Irish Labour party	About time	Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:14
16	About time you admitted your real agenda	Topper	Fri Jan 06, 2006 18:18
17	Topper.	About time	Mon Jan 09, 2006 09:13
18	Sound assumptions based on what you actually said, not my imagination	Topper	Mon Jan 09, 2006 17:21
19	A question for About time	Tom Joad	Mon Jan 09, 2006 19:44
20	Topper apparently can't comprehend English	About time	Tue Jan 10, 2006 09:35
21	Easier to call someone an idiot than to win the argument	Topper	Tue Jan 10, 2006 16:20
22	I Agree with About Time.	Plato	Wed Jan 11, 2006 13:37
23	You have left important variables out of your equation.	strichnine	Wed Jan 11, 2006 13:53
24	reply	Plato	Wed Jan 11, 2006 14:14
25	I argue that if tomorrow 200,000 people left Dublin	lava lamp	Wed Jan 11, 2006 14:27
26	Shite Economics	Plato	Wed Jan 11, 2006 15:05
27	you're being silly.	kaleidoscope.	Wed Jan 11, 2006 15:44
28	Shite Talker	Plato	Wed Jan 11, 2006 16:03
29	Would you mind explaining how house prices have come down	glittery nail polish	Wed Jan 11, 2006 16:10
30	Moi?	Glittery Nail Remover	Wed Jan 11, 2006 16:19
31	Oh come on.	glow stick	Wed Jan 11, 2006 16:30
32	O!	wawa pedal	Wed Jan 11, 2006 17:19
33	Nazis raus	Topper	Wed Jan 11, 2006 17:22
34	I am of no Ideological system.	Plato	Wed Jan 11, 2006 17:55
35	One other Point	Philo	Wed Jan 11, 2006 18:03
36	OK whatever you call yourself. I know you're spouting nazi revisionism either way.	wawapedal, yawn, ribbid, i wonder is the nazi	Wed Jan 11, 2006 20:58

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