The elected members of the Drogheda Borough Council backed an emergency resolution that I tabled at last night’s (November 2nd) monthly meeting supporting the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Drogheda Trades Council’s call to local workers, community organisations and interest groups to join the November 6th ICTU Protest in Dundalk.
The Dundalk rally this coming Friday afternoon, begining at 2.30pm at the Fairgreen, and is one of eight monster ICTU demonstrations that will be held at different locations right around Ireland, including Dublin, in protest at the continuing unemployment crisis, proposed government cuts in vital social welfare supports, cuts in public services, workers pensions as well as public and private sector pay.
Meanwhile, the local and national “Golden Circle” of land speculators, developers, auctioneers and bankers ,who “raped” the country’s economy for a decade or more, are to be handed up to 80 billion euro (via NAMA), that will be borrowed on international money markets by the present Fianna Fail-Green government and/or a future Fine Gael-Labour administration, to buy up their massive debts. This money will be then repaid by working families, communities and society in the form of job, pay, pension, social welfare, health and education cuts for (potentially) three or four generetaions of Irish workers into the future.
The local Siptu, Unite amd Impact trade unions, in association with the Drogheda Trades Council, have come together to organise a number of special busses, departing from the Drogheda Bus Depot. at 1pm on Friday and returning from Dundalk at the conclusion of the protest rally. Anyone wishing to travel to the protest on these busses should arrive in good time for the planned 1pm departures as the seats will be available strictly on a “first come-first served” basis.
Published below is the emergency motion that I submitted and which was adopted by the members at last Monday night’s Drogheda Borough Council meeting