Vote “NO” to Croke Park 2. Defend Education. Defend Public Services. Colleagues, Rally, Saturday 9 March 6, 2013
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A grass-roots rally of public servants in the education sector will take place in the Gresham Hotel Dublin at 12:00 on this Saturday 9th March 2013.
All public servants are very welcome to come along. Please forward this mail to public sector employees you know.
The focuses of the rally will be on:
securing a “NO” vote to Croke Park 2 in as many unions as possible
the need for unity amongst all public servants in the face of the on-going attacks on us, and
the way forward to better representation and mobilisation of public servants
sending a message to our unions, to ICTU and to the Government that this so-called agreement will not be accepted
This rally is not called by the Executive of any union and has absolutely nothing to do with ICTU, which clearly no longer represents public servants at all.
Please attend and advertise the rally to all other public servants you know, both within the Education Sector and outside it: All public servants are very welcome to come along.
The intention is to show our own union leadership and ICTU that in the absence of representation from them, we can and will mobilise ourselves.
We urge you to attend.
Regards,
Martin Marjoram (TUI Branch Chair IT Tallaght)
Michael Carr (TUI Branch Chair Dublin Colleges)
Gregor Kerr (INTO District 14)
Maria Parsons (TUI Branch Chair IADT Dun Laoghaire)
Claus Derenda (TUI Branch Chair IT Carlow)
Gerald Mills (IFUT UCD)
Richard Crowley (TUI Branch Chair Dundalk IT)
Thomas Dooley (TUI Acting Branch Secretary Dundalk IT)
Andrew Phelan (ASTI)
Paddy Healy (TUI Dublin Retired Members Association)
Kevin Farrell (TUI Executive, Area 15)
Eddie Conlon (TUI Executive, Area 16)
Niall Smyth (INTO)
Paul Farrell (TUI IT Tallaght)
Ronan Callanan (TUI Dublin City PP)
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Very exciting event. What was really impressive was the number of young workers, teachers, lecturers, nurses, who were prepared to stand up and deman a no vote from the ‘ old fogeys’ at the top of their unions and the ICTU.
Speaker and speaker gave facts and figures which showed that Croke park 2 was a bad deal for the public purse, as the privatisation driving it will cost us all more and result in a worsening service for all. As we watch the UK ruin its education sector, it’s health sector, it’s policing, while it gives state money to the likes if G4, it’s hard to believe how we are letting our home grown Tories dismantle our state services without a murmur.
Not only that but the speakers also showed how Croke park2 is gendered, impacting more harshly on women then men.
Very good event . Well done to all.
Teachers, Gardaí, Nurses unite Against Croke Park 2
United Public Service “No 2 Croke Park 2” Rally starts the campaign to win the “No” vote and to keep the “No” vote
10th March 2013.
At a packed ballroom in the Gresham Hotel on Saturday, a rally of members from unions across the public sector expressed their resounding rejection of the Croke Park 2 Proposals. Speakers included Dr. Martin Marjoram (TUI Branch Chair and Lecturer), Ciara Brennan (New Teacher and INTO Member), Mark Walshe (Second-Level Teacher and ASTI Fightback), Dr. Kevin Farrell (TUI Executive Member and Lecturer) and Dr. Mary Gilmartin (IFUT). A number of guest speakers included Paddy Healy (TUI Retired Members Association and former TUI President), Peter Hughes (Psychiatric Nurses Association and 24/7 Alliance), Phil Ní hAodha (Director of Industrial Relations INMO and 24/7 Alliance) and John Redmond (AGSI General Secretary and 24/7 Alliance).
In his address, Chairperson Dr. Martin Marjoram said that Croke Park 2 (CP2) represents an all-out assault on the pay, pensions and conditions of employment of teachers, lecturers and all public sector workers. He called a for a massive “No” vote across the public sector, and insisted that ICTU or any particular union must not be allowed to impose cuts or job losses on the members of other unions.
Dr. Kevin Farrell highlighted answers to PQs from Minister for Finance Michael Noonan which showed discrepancies in the taxation of the top 10,000 ‘income units’ in the country, who the Minister said earn €600,000 per year on average. The figures show that if these people from across the private and public sector were to pay full taxes, it would allow the Government to obtain every year, almost €1Bn additional monies through the taxation system, which is three times the amount being sought from far lower paid public servants in Croke Park 2.
All speakers, including those from the floor, expressed unity of purpose in opposing the proposals, and vowed to take action if the Government legislated to implement pay and pension cuts.
The presence of representatives from AGSI, INMO, PNA is a signal of the unity we are forging against this selective taxation of public service employees and pensioners.
Issued by: No 2 Croke Park 2 email: no2crokepark2@gmail.com
Contact Martin (TUI) 086 3862535; Andrew (ASTI) 087 7417427; Niall (INTO) 087 6988540
Phil Ní Sheaghdha is the INMO Director of Industrial Relations. Not Phil Ní hAodha.
Thanks to both of you for those reports. Sounds great.
That sounds like an interesting event
Ireland is bankrupt. The National Debt is 170 Thousand million and your government is borrowing 13 Thousand million from the Troika to help pay salaries and run government services. Nothing exciting about that I’m afraid!! This will end disaster for teachers with a second IMF/EU bailout with more stringent conditions than the first.
Horrible though Croke Park Two is, it is a hell of a lot better than the alternative. Ignore the militants.
Ireland isn’t paying 13 billion a year to pay public sector salaries and government services. It’s borrowing that money to pay the almost 10 billion euro interest bail attendant on bailing out the bankrupt banks. At the end of 2007 the Auditor and Comptroller General gave a figure of 1.4 billion to service the national debt. The IMF estimate this year’s interest bill to be 9.3 billion. The state will pay 50 billion euro over the next five years in interest along. 85% of that bill solely attributable to the decisions made 2008-2010 to try to save European banking at the expense of the Irish people and Irish society.The state is bankrupt because it bailed out bankrupt banks instead of letting them go to the wall. It is NOT bankrupt because of public sector pay or funding essential public services.
The deficit is a consequence of bailout of the banks NOT of paying decent salaries to public servants and providing half-decent public services.
‘Reasonable’ ‘pragmatists’ have brought this country and Europe to the brink and look like they’d rather destroy the notion of a decent society in order to save criminal banks. The ‘militants’ are our only hope at the moment.