{"id":1825,"date":"2010-04-21T16:47:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T16:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/2010\/connolly-shoes-dun-laoghaire-2pm-saturday-rally-to-support-striking-workers\/"},"modified":"2010-04-21T16:47:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T16:47:46","slug":"connolly-shoes-dun-laoghaire-2pm-saturday-rally-to-support-striking-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2010\/connolly-shoes-dun-laoghaire-2pm-saturday-rally-to-support-striking-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Connolly Shoes Dun Laoghaire &#8211; 2pm Saturday &#8211; Rally to support striking workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href='http:\/\/posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/briangreene\/ZhIxU8Qmk7gLGLYBXJob37onqqzufCeenvxKs8GvT9DAMVbq3TqsnemB4w2v\/25102008296.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/briangreene\/CvgR4NKEF0cTqcIvwi6t401D6MA1hsVq5VTmOaObkoppJgvdnI2UNXE16uG0\/25102008296.jpg.scaled.500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>press statement: Joe Higgins MEP supports striking Connolly Shoes workers <\/p>\n<p \/> \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Striking Connolly Shoes workers in Dun Laoghaire deserve <br \/>support of all trade unionists and wider community <\/p>\n<p \/> \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shops in Dun Laoghaire, Bray, Arklow and Camden Street should <br \/>be boycotted to help force settlement for workers <\/p>\n<p \/>&#8220;The two workers sacked after 30 years service each in Connolly Shoes <br \/>in Dun Laoghaire for refusing to have pay cuts and attacks on their <br \/>conditions imposed without agreement deserve the support of trade <br \/>unionists and the wider community. <\/p>\n<p \/> &#8220;Workers see it as a crude attempt by Mr Connolly Junior, who took <br \/>over the chain from his father last year, to drive the workers&#8217; union <br \/>MANDATE out of the shops. <\/p>\n<p \/> &#8220;Workers were obliged to strike last year as a result of what they <br \/>felt was his macho management. This ended in agreed terms at the LRC, <br \/>which he subsequently refused to honour. The fact this dispute <br \/>involves a small number of workers is immaterial, it is still a <br \/>challenge to the trade union movement as a whole that needs to be met <br \/>head on. <\/p>\n<p \/> &#8220;I encourage the local community in Dun Laoghaire to turn out in force <br \/>this Saturday at 2pm outside the shop in Georges Street Dun Laoghaire <br \/>at a rally to support the workers. Every effort should be made to <br \/>bring out workers in the other Connolly shops in Bray, Arklow and <br \/>Camden Street in support of their striking workmates as this would be <br \/>the quickest means to force a settlement on the employer.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p \/> [photo from archive October 2008]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via email<\/a>   from <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.briangreene.com\/connolly-shoes-dun-laoghaire-2pm-saturday-ral\">web lab<\/a>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>press statement: Joe Higgins MEP supports striking Connolly Shoes workers \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Striking Connolly Shoes workers in Dun Laoghaire deserve support of all trade unionists and wider community \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shops in Dun Laoghaire, Bray, Arklow and Camden Street should be boycotted to help force settlement for workers &#8220;The two workers sacked after 30 years service each&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2010\/connolly-shoes-dun-laoghaire-2pm-saturday-rally-to-support-striking-workers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Connolly Shoes Dun Laoghaire &#8211; 2pm Saturday &#8211; Rally to support striking workers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}