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Trade unionists urge workers to Vote no to pay deal .![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Open meeting to plan campaign against deal. Trade unionists across all unions are today being urged to reject the proposed national pay agreement. The conference also heard from public service workers representing nurses, teachers and the Dublin Fire Brigade. A number of speakers rejected attempts to scapegoat public sector workers as been somehow responsible for the economic crisis. They warned that emergency services where already deteriorating as a result of cut backs and management policies. One speaker pointed out that the recent OECD report showed that far from a bloated and inefficient public service we were spending less proportionally than a decade ago. Frontline staff like nurses and fire fighters saw first hand the effects this had in delivering a service to an expanding population, |
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