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Community Employment Cuts

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Tuesday December 10, 2002 16:49author by Community Activist - from Dublin

The Government are presently dismantling CE projects throughout the Country. This has implications for literally hundreds of organisations, most of that are run by local communities providing essential services that they have decided are vital to their area. No one appears to be harnessing opposition to CE cuts or attempting to organise the people who will be effected by them. Mostly, CE projects services are targetted at the people who have been forgotten by society. The, so called, community pillar of the social partnership have done little to insist on the protection of these projects. Also the workers on such projects are either long term unemployed, lone parents or people with disabilities and therefore have no power to resist the cuts. The only intervention by Unions has been to negotiate redundancy for supervisors. While I have no objection to this, some supervisors are now actively encouraging the closure of projects and

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