So i was watching the evening news on RTE, the irish state broadcaster, reporting from the IMPACT union's general meeting to discuss the new 'pension levy' i.e. the new pay cut. Well RTE stated that the union had decided to have a nice little 'email campaign' and some valentines day pickets of the constituency offices of Fianna Fail TDs, all very polite and ineffectual sounding.
The thing is that's NOT what happened! The union leaders sent out a pre-emptive press release declaring these shy tactics as what would come out of the general meeting but the membership's fury at the actual meeting wasn't taken into account. The members voted to mandate the union to call mass protests during working hours and to ballot the membership nationally for strike action.
They stated that if the Irish Congress of Trade Unions wouldn't support these measures that IMPACT would act anyway.
The RTE report from the actual meeting cut off before any sign of workers anger was shown.
They obviously can't go encouraging the fight back now can they?
I'm related to a lot of working class soldiers, the soldier's union has announced that they wont break any public sector strikes (as the government has used them repeatedly in the past), anyway at a meeting of soldiers the other day someone flippantly suggested shooting Sean Fitzpatrick, the director of Anglo Irish Bank, if this crisis goes on maybe those kind of remarks will become more frequent and less flippant.
And the battalion stationed under the Dail in Leinster house are only a stones throw from that bank.... and while they're at it....
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