Dylan
New Member
TO ALL STUDENTS:
Re: Job Displacement and Exploitation in Irish Ferries
The key issues of Job Displacement and Exploitation have been dramatically highlighted in the Irish Ferries Dispute.
The workers in Irish Ferries are battling to defend their jobs and agreed terms of employment, which have been upheld by the Labour Court. The Company intends to replace them with vulnerable workers paid less than the National Minimum Wage. To this end, they have employed strong-arm tactics the likes of which are unprecedented in modern Irish industrial relations. Their objective and the methods they have employed to achieve it have been roundly condemned across the social spectrum. In this regard alone, the workers in Irish Ferries deserve the full and unequivocal support of every Trade Union member and indeed every decent person in the country.
The issue, however, extends away beyond Irish Ferries because Job Displacement and Exploitation are already well underway in our economy. Indeed, it is very clear that the fight of the Irish Ferries workers is everybody’s fight.
Accordingly, we are requesting every student and worker to support the National Protest on Friday 9 December, which has been called in solidarity with the Irish Ferries workers, and to call on the Government to act to address the issues of Job Displacement, Exploitation and the Protection of Employment Standards.
We are also requesting every student and worker to participate in the protest rallies on that day and to endeavour, as far as possible, to persuade others, e.g. family members etc to do so as well.
The work conditions and health & safety conditions which we all take for granted are now being eroded by this move. Other employers are now watching, if this goes ahead, whose next???
Friday’s demonstration is an opportunity for all Irish workers and students to show our support for and solidarity with Irish Ferries workers in their battle against job displacement and exploitation. Their fight is our fight because if the company is successful in defeating the workers’ resistance it will open the floodgates for employers throughout the economy to slash wages and attack working conditions – a process which is already well under way.
As students we are the future work force. If Irish Ferries win this battle other employers will follow their example. We cannot sit by idly at such a crucial moment while our future rights of employment hang in the balance. We must make our voices heard and show our solidarity with the Irish Ferries Workers.
PLEASE PRINT THESE OUT AND STICK THEM UP IN YOUR SCHOOL.
Re: Job Displacement and Exploitation in Irish Ferries
The key issues of Job Displacement and Exploitation have been dramatically highlighted in the Irish Ferries Dispute.
The workers in Irish Ferries are battling to defend their jobs and agreed terms of employment, which have been upheld by the Labour Court. The Company intends to replace them with vulnerable workers paid less than the National Minimum Wage. To this end, they have employed strong-arm tactics the likes of which are unprecedented in modern Irish industrial relations. Their objective and the methods they have employed to achieve it have been roundly condemned across the social spectrum. In this regard alone, the workers in Irish Ferries deserve the full and unequivocal support of every Trade Union member and indeed every decent person in the country.
The issue, however, extends away beyond Irish Ferries because Job Displacement and Exploitation are already well underway in our economy. Indeed, it is very clear that the fight of the Irish Ferries workers is everybody’s fight.
Accordingly, we are requesting every student and worker to support the National Protest on Friday 9 December, which has been called in solidarity with the Irish Ferries workers, and to call on the Government to act to address the issues of Job Displacement, Exploitation and the Protection of Employment Standards.
We are also requesting every student and worker to participate in the protest rallies on that day and to endeavour, as far as possible, to persuade others, e.g. family members etc to do so as well.
The work conditions and health & safety conditions which we all take for granted are now being eroded by this move. Other employers are now watching, if this goes ahead, whose next???
Friday’s demonstration is an opportunity for all Irish workers and students to show our support for and solidarity with Irish Ferries workers in their battle against job displacement and exploitation. Their fight is our fight because if the company is successful in defeating the workers’ resistance it will open the floodgates for employers throughout the economy to slash wages and attack working conditions – a process which is already well under way.
As students we are the future work force. If Irish Ferries win this battle other employers will follow their example. We cannot sit by idly at such a crucial moment while our future rights of employment hang in the balance. We must make our voices heard and show our solidarity with the Irish Ferries Workers.
PLEASE PRINT THESE OUT AND STICK THEM UP IN YOUR SCHOOL.
