Cuts to minimum wage must be opposed

national | anti-capitalism | press release Friday January 29, 2010 08:35 by RSF - Republican Sinn Fein

Leinster House (again) attacks on the working class!

Cuts to minimum wage must be opposed

Statement from Fergal Moore, Vice-President, Republican Sinn Féin

Republican Sinn Féin -

Any attempt to cut the minimum wage is an attack on the most vulnerable members of the working class and must be vigorously opposed by all those who wish to live in a just and equitable society.

The suggestion that some businesses will be exempt from paying the minimum wage in the 26 Counties is an invitation to the business classes to abuse their workers in order to chase profit margins. Mary Coughlan’s indication that she will follow a Labour Court proposal on the matter does not bode well for the lower paid.

The workers, who are the means by which wealth is created in the first place, are already bearing the brunt of the mishandling of the economy by the incompetents in Leinster House.

Workers from all sections of society and all pay levels must unite on this issue which exposes the rotten core that lies at the heart of the Capitalist system. Only by replacing this system with one that values the workers and does not exploit them will there be true justice in Ireland.