WHOLE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT NEEDS TO RESPOND TO MINISTER DEMPSEY'S THREAT TO RIGHT TO STRIKE
"The government and Fine Gael grudgingly accept the legal right to strike in the abstract or when an action is not effective. However let's be clear, when strike action is taken by workers to defend themselves against employers seeking to attack their wages and conditions, they should take action designed to exact maximum pressure on employers."
"The establishment media have made a big play of the salaries that the Air Traffic Controllers receive in order to excite public animosity against them. Their decent conditions, which they deserve and which reflect the stress and responsibility of the job, is immaterial to this debate. That the workers were willing to take a hit in pay in order to defend their suspended colleagues is admirable solidarity."
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