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Austerity’ Workers Far from Deal Won’T Overpaid Budget Factories of Remembering 2012 the future the Dublin docks Pages 12-13 Page 8-9 Page 27 $#$!%(&&$$"& $% "&* "!!&$& '!+"$) !'&'$! (%"! "!$! Ser˙˙ces ˙n˙˙s˙r˙a˙ '$%)&"( $ Profess˙ona˙ an˙ * "!!'& ˙ec˙n˙ca˙ ˙n˙on $% "& '! Liberty Hall Dublin 1 Tel: 1890 747881 Email: [email protected] www.siptu.ie Vol. 10 No.10 December 2011 ISSN 0791-458X Public Latest EU service ‘austerity’ workers far from deal won’t overpaid By Scott Millar work In the main, SIPTU’s 70,000 public service members are drawn from the lower staff grades which By Frank Connolly constitute the vast majority of the The latest initiative to restore dened by unsustainable debt public sector workforce of stability to EU finances will not will have even less prospects of 300,000. provide the necessary growth to growth,” Jack O’Connor said. General operatives working in assist countries, including He said the proposals to the local councils have basic Ireland, which are burdened by enforce an annual structural salaries of no more than 30,000, unsustainable debt, SIPTU deficit of more than 0.5% each € General President, Jack year would “institutionalise aus- drivers €31,000 and porters just O’Connor has said. terity” and greatly restrict the over €30,000. He was responding to the out- flexibility of future Irish govern- This mean’s drivers have a come of the EU summit on ments. weekly basic pay of no more than Friday (9th December) during The proposals would almost €610 with general operatives earn- which 26 out of 27 member certainly require a referendum ing €574 per week. In addition to countries agreed on a new inter- due to the transfer of budgetary the state pension after 20 years’ governmental treaty including a and other powers envisaged service a local authority driver “fiscal compact” to enforce although this will not be clari- receives a pension of €61 per budgetary discipline on States fied until the details are fleshed week, after 40 years €122. which breach the 3% deficit out in discussions between offi- Similarly, a general operative limit. cials of the 26 participating gov- receives a €57 per week pension “The outcome of the EU sum- ernments over the coming after 20 years’ service or €114 mit will not solve the problems months. after 40 years. of the euro for the peoples of “The devil will be in the detail In the health service, for Europe. At best it will enable but given the magnitude of what things to muddle on. is involved the people must be healthcare assistants, porters and Consequently any hopes of a consulted one way or the other,” catering staff – who constitute the rapid job generating recovery the SIPTU president said. bulk of SIPTU members in this will not be realised. The plan also includes the sector – pay starts at €27,500 and “There is no relief in sight for establishment of a firewall even after 40 years’ service can the stressed countries. There is involving the rapid deployment only reach a maximum of €34,500. no suggestion of debt restructur- of €440 billion through the Such workers constitute close to ing, or Eurobonds or any kind of European Financial Stability three quarters of the SIPTU Health fiscal transfer mechanism to Facility and a further injection of Division’s 43,000 members, a fact direct resources from prosper- €500 billion through a new Divisional Organiser Paul Bell says ous regions to those which are European Stability Mechanism is wilfully ignored in most media struggling. to come into effect in July 2012. debate. “Indeed the so called “Fiscal The Eurozone and other EU “Those who are championing Compact” which emerged will countries will also lend an extra further reductions in public serv- only achieve the opposite of €200 billion to the IMF to help ice pay, including those insisting what is required. It will mean distressed member states. health workers are not paid their that countries which are bur- By opting out and threatening Protesting against cuts to Community Employment Schemes at Leinster House on Friday (9th December) Continued on page 2 Continued on page 2 Picture: Picture: Derek Speirs ORGANISING FOR FAIRNESS AT WORK AND JUSTICE IN SOCIETY • WWW.SIPTU.IE • JOIN ONLINE 2 Liberty DECEMBER 2011 News In this month’s Government must act on Liberty agency workers’ rights From 5th December temporary conditions as if they had been tion from the date the legislation agency workers have equal right directly recruited by the hirer in is passed back to 5th December under EU law to pay and holidays the same job. 2011.” Massive support as their permanent full time col- “However the Directive has not The Government has intimated for pensions strike leagues in the Republic of Ireland. been transposed into Irish law. that the Temporary Agency The new equal status for Therefore the reality for tempo- Workers Bill is presently being in the North agency workers results from the rary agency workers is that they drafted and will provide for equal Page 6 implementation of the EU will not be allowed to vindicate treatment of Temporary Agency Temporary Agency Workers their rights until the appropriate Workers in accordance with the Directive and is likely to affect up legislation transposing the EU Directive. to 40,000 workers across the pub- Directive is passed into Irish Law.” In December 2005, up to lic and private sectors. Employers Tom O’Driscoll added; “The sit- 100,000 people marched in Dublin Closer ‘Austerity’ unsuccessfully sought derogation uation for agency workers against the gross exploitation of union not a good deal from the Directive. employed by the state is that the workers involved in the Irish SIPTU Head of Legal Affairs, Doctrine of Direct Effect comes Ferries dispute which led to the Page 10 Tom O’Driscoll, said; “This means into play. This basically means the ultimately successful campaign for that Agency workers are entitled Directive has direct effect in Irish an EU Directive granting equality to equal treatment in terms of law. This may allow public sector for agency workers. basic working and employment agency workers to claim retrospec- Croke Park – a good deal done already Jobless figures show urgent need for growth plan Page 14 A major investment and job cre- to focus all its energy on getting peo- damage being done to both economy ation programme is urgently required ple back to work. and society by current policies,” Paul to combat rising unemployment, the “We urgently need a major new Sweeney said. Irish Congress of Trade Unions has jobs plan from Government. The con- “We need a major programme of said. tinued imposition of austerity is deci- investment and job creation. While Health Sector news The call on Monday (12th mating the economy and the recent Government has expressed interest in December) for a new jobs plan came budget will only serve to make the sit- attracting investment from private Page 16-17 as official figures confirmed that the uation worse. It will cost us more jobs. pension funds, as we suggested before number of people at work continues “The latest figures confirm a very the budget, they now need to move to decline as unemployment increas- worrying and dangerous trend, with on initiatives like this as a matter of es. long-term unemployment rising to urgency. There will be a huge social Congress Chief Economist Paul 56.3% from 47% last year. That is quite and economic price to pay if we fail to Sweeney said Government now had shocking and indicative of the huge act now.” Community Sector news Page 18-19 Continued from page 1 Latest EU ‘austerity’ deal won’t work to legally challenge the proposal to breach the 3% deficit limit will place Jack O’Connor said. have the EU Court of Justice enforce difficulties on countries like Ireland His comments came after the latest budgetary discipline arising from an which require economic growth to CSO figures indicate another rise in Egypt: Arab Street the agreement made outside the terms of escape from their current debt bur- the number of unemployed from motor of change the existing EU treaties the UK gov- den. 14.2% to 14.4% for the third quarter ernment has already damaged the “The only way out of the debt compared to the previous period. Page 25 prospects for success of the new quagmire in Europe is through a Unemployment increased by 5.3% arrangement. viable plan for growth. The strategy over the year to 314,700 with long The proposed introduction of favoured by German capital, growth term unemployment accounting for automatic fines for governments that through austerity, will not work,” more than 56% of the total. Continued from page 1 Euro 2012 fans: the good, bad and ugly Public service workers far from overpaid Page 30 annual increments should fully Sector Trends 2011 found that the SIPTU Public Administration inform themselves of the reality pay of administrative staff is and Community Division of pay in the public sector. They towards the lower end of Organiser, Gene Mealy, said; “The should also accept that the vast European norms. reality is that SIPTU’s public sec- majority of concessions under the This report also found that top tor membership in the main con- Croke Park agreement have been managers’ compensation in the sists of low and medium paid made by low paid workers. This is UK and Ireland in 2009 was 7.7 workers and any objective analy- already substantial loss of earn- times that of administrative staff sis of the contribution they have ings through reductions in over whereas for the Nordic countries made as part of the Public Service Liberty is dedicated to providing a platform for progressive news and views.
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