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“Partnership” and the Corruption of the Irish Trade Unions
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Saturday October 23, 2010 23:10 by Kerry Worker - Kerry Public Service Workers' Alliance
Notably absent from the media analysis of the recent SIPTU scandal has been the conclusion that Irish trade unions were corrupted by government hand-outs under the guise of “partnership”. That during the “Celtic tiger years” Irish trade union leaders’ interests diverged strongly from that of the ordinary membership. That “partnership” and “benchmarking” significantly advanced the interests of the managerial class within the trade unions, while yielding miniscule cost-of-living pay increases for ordinary members in a time of rapid inflation. That these same union bosses need removal every bit as urgently as do the current crop of Irish political and financial leaders. The lurid details of the SIPTU National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund scandal have been popping up in bits and pieces in the papers recently. The angle being taken in the media is one simply of more government waste, tax-payers money being flitted away by the public services, trade union fat-cats living it up with high-flying trips abroad etc etc. |
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Jump To Comment: 2 1The average citizen has the moral obligation not to trust politicians, this everyone over 6 years of age should know already, but more so, and given that knowledge, they should be much more wary of the unions, who are far worse. "I am your friend. I will protect you. I have your best interest at heart. I understand your. Trust me. Support me..." Does this sound familiar? Hello?
could that absence of reference to the corrupting of the unions be due to the long embedded corruption of what likes to polish its credentials as the fourth estate, watchdog for the public on the preservation of our democratic rights?
When the watchdog belongs to the burglar, or can be decoyed with the sweeties of advertising revenue, or has its newsgathering brief replaced with the pulp production of cyclotronic spin tanks, then the media no longer mediate, they have defected to the dictatorship of Wall Street.
In fact they are busy covering the speculator/burglar's back as he absconds with our, and our kids' futures.Musta been a juicy bone.