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Migrant Workers

category national | worker & community struggles and protests | press release author Wednesday January 04, 2006 17:24author by Joe Higgins T.D. - Socialist Party Report this post to the editors

Labour Leader and SIPTU President Pointing in Completely Wrong Direction

Key is Militant Trade Union Strategy to Flush Out Cheap Labour Employers Rather Than EU Work Permits

The Labour Party leader Pat Rabbitte’s assertion that work permits for workers from certain E.U. States might need to be looked at in future has been supported by Mr. Jack O’ Connor, President of SIPTU.

Both the Labour Party leader and SIPTU President are pointing in a completely wrong direction.

There is exploitation of migrant labour in this State and there is a persistent strategy in some industries to undercut trade union rates of pay by abusing the availability of workers from Eastern Europe.

The answer is not to raise a call for work permits, which give further powers to bosses to exploit. The answer is for the trade union movement to launch a militant strategy to flush out cheap labour employers.

This would involve considerable resources in terms of personnel, time and industrial action to isolate industrialists who seek to undercut trade union rates of pay. It would pro-actively recruit the tens of thousands of migrant workers into the trade union movement. It would make this State a no go area for cheap labour bosses and exploitative practices.

It is clear from the magnificent turnout of working people in opposition to Irish Ferries’ “slave labour” strategy on December 9th, that workers in this State, both Irish born and migrant, would strongly support such an approach.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Good point against politricks     barra    Wed Jan 04, 2006 18:27 
   Rabbitte bizarre and disturbing     Jonah    Wed Jan 04, 2006 18:44 
   Labour are anti immigrant     Labour watch    Wed Jan 04, 2006 20:39 
   Take politics out of the picture and then look at it.     Seán Ryan    Thu Jan 05, 2006 05:47 
   Listen ...     observer    Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:34 
   Fantasies?     Topper    Thu Jan 05, 2006 14:09 
   Topper my friend     Observer    Thu Jan 05, 2006 14:24 
   Attacks On Migrant Workers     pat c    Thu Jan 05, 2006 14:32 
   Support for town migrant workers     pat c    Thu Jan 05, 2006 14:48 
 10   Pat C     observer    Thu Jan 05, 2006 14:48 
 11   observor     pat c    Thu Jan 05, 2006 14:58 
 12   Pat C     observer    Thu Jan 05, 2006 15:10 
 13   Foreign delivery men 'being attacked by racists in Dublin'     redjade    Thu Jan 05, 2006 15:23 
 14   observor     pat c    Thu Jan 05, 2006 15:39 
 15   Irish Labour party     About time    Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:14 
 16   About time you admitted your real agenda     Topper    Fri Jan 06, 2006 18:18 
 17   Topper.     About time    Mon Jan 09, 2006 09:13 
 18   Sound assumptions based on what you actually said, not my imagination     Topper    Mon Jan 09, 2006 17:21 
 19   A question for About time     Tom Joad    Mon Jan 09, 2006 19:44 
 20   Topper apparently can't comprehend English     About time    Tue Jan 10, 2006 09:35 
 21   Easier to call someone an idiot than to win the argument     Topper    Tue Jan 10, 2006 16:20 
 22   I Agree with About Time.     Plato    Wed Jan 11, 2006 13:37 
 23   You have left important variables out of your equation.     strichnine    Wed Jan 11, 2006 13:53 
 24   reply     Plato    Wed Jan 11, 2006 14:14 
 25   I argue that if tomorrow 200,000 people left Dublin     lava lamp    Wed Jan 11, 2006 14:27 
 26   Shite Economics     Plato    Wed Jan 11, 2006 15:05 
 27   you're being silly.     kaleidoscope.    Wed Jan 11, 2006 15:44 
 28   Shite Talker     Plato    Wed Jan 11, 2006 16:03 
 29   Would you mind explaining how house prices have come down     glittery nail polish    Wed Jan 11, 2006 16:10 
 30   Moi?     Glittery Nail Remover    Wed Jan 11, 2006 16:19 
 31   Oh come on.     glow stick    Wed Jan 11, 2006 16:30 
 32   O!     wawa pedal    Wed Jan 11, 2006 17:19 
 33   Nazis raus     Topper    Wed Jan 11, 2006 17:22 
 34   I am of no Ideological system.     Plato    Wed Jan 11, 2006 17:55 
 35   One other Point     Philo    Wed Jan 11, 2006 18:03 
 36   OK whatever you call yourself. I know you're spouting nazi revisionism either way.     wawapedal, yawn, ribbid, i wonder is the nazi    Wed Jan 11, 2006 20:58 


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