Protest against the proposed cuts in Community Employment

national | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday May 08, 2002 17:33 by Tallaght Centre for the Unemployed

Call to Protest May 10th

There will be a protest about the proposed cuts in Community Employment this Friday May 10th at 3.00pm at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin.

There will be a protest about the proposed cuts in Community Employment this Friday May 10th at 3.00pm at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin.

FAS, directed by Minister Mary Harney, want to cut a substantial number of Community Employment places. Although under PPF arrangements the agreement was to gradually reduce the numbers to 28,000 nationwide the latest news on cuts is above and beyond this and was never put to the social partners.

The spin on all of this is that long term unemployed numbers are down. This is irrelevant for a huge proportion of Community Employment workers who are lone parents (in Tallaght 4 out of 5 Community Employment workers are lone parents).

Please come along if you can on Friday to the protest to show Mary Harney that we won't take these cuts lying down and to demand the reversal of this ludicrous decision.

For further information phone Tallaght Centre for the Unemployed on 01 - 451 2983.