‘Modernisation’ means cuts: Support the postal workers’ fightback

Housing maintenance grant budgets are being cut. Major investment in social housing is urgently needed to meet the housing needs of ordinary people. We are told there is not enough dough to go round. Well, if you happen to be a boss of housing associations, there is plenty to go round.

Joe Higgins, Socialist Party MEP and senior trade union activists have called for all-out resistance to the plan by the Fianna Fáil/Green Party government to savage the wages of public service workers.

Call for Major Lunchtime Protest at Dáil 1.00PM This Wednesday (Budget Day).

Councillor Terry Kelleher, a member of the CPSU Executive Committee said: “Low paid CPSU members (who on average earn only €575 a week, €29,900 per annum) can’t afford another pay cut. What’s on the cards is up to a 15% pay cut in one year. Our members are struggling and some of them are already forced to claim Family Income Supplement because their wages are so low. Another pay cut plus cuts in child benefit will drive many public sector workers into poverty.

‘We Won’t Pay’ leads campaign for mass non-payment

7 March 2007

The battle against water charges in Northern Ireland is heating up, with only a few weeks left until the first bills arrive in April.

Donal O’Cofaigh launched his campaign at an event attended by supporters in the Westville Hotel on Thursday 14th.

The event was chaired by Ciaran Mulholland, treasurer of the Socialist Party NI, and speaking was newly elected Dublin North Socialist Party TD, Clare Daly.

Clare spoke about the economic crisis in the Republic of Ireland and how ordinary people had suffered as a result of the decision to bailout bankers, speculators and bondholders. She pointed to the need for working people to campaign against these cuts and the need for social solidarity.