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Irish Ferries - The nuclear option
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Monday December 12, 2005 21:22 by Panzram - Socialist Collective
Irish Ferries workers stand firm Irish Ferries management has played its trump card, the treat to withdraw the “generous” redundancy packages offered. Irish Ferries workers are made of sterner stuff and will face down management even if this leads to the demise of Irish Ferries. Irish Ferries management have played their trump card, the treat to cut or withdraw the “generous” redundancy packages forced on the workers as compensation for the destruction of the jobs and their way of life. Rothwell and his cronies initially believed that these “forty pieces of silver” would cause the loyal seamen of Ireland to betray their shipmates. They have of course now found that the Irish working man or woman is made of more heroic stuff. They are not interested in the blood money of management offered over the death of their jobs and the sweat of the immigrant labour. The bosses could have offered ten times their blackmail and the seamen would have stood fast. |
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let them go into liquidation or receivership or whatever. how do they think they are going to move their ships? no port worker will let the ships dock or depart. no court injunction or judges order will alter this. if irish ferries try the road of court action then they will start a fire that will burn bright for a long time.
bertie & co know this, they are terrified of the state being destabilised by workers action showing that injunctions are irrelevant. how many thousand of us can they lock up?