Irish Congress Of Trade Unions
National Day Of Protest
Friday December 9th

Waterford March:
Industrial Estate Workers Assemble AIB Bank, Paddy Brown’s Road @ 1pm
All Other Workers Assemble In The Glen @ 2pm For March And Rally In John Roberts Square

Irish Ferries have resorted to tactics from the 1913 Dublin Lock-Out in order to force their workers to take redundancy to facilitate the employment of cheap labour at 3.50 an hour. If Irish Ferries are allowed to get away with this it will be a green light for employers across the country to sack their workers in favour of cheaper, non-union labour. Irish Ferries, if successful with their bully-boy tactics, will serve as a precedent for every unscrupulous employer to force down wages in a race to the bottom.

The Waterford Trades Council is imploring all workers to recognise the threat that the Irish Ferries situation represents to workers rights and to respond in force by bringing Waterford to a stand-still on the afternoon of Friday 9th. We call on every worker to take to the streets to show solidarity with the Irish Ferries workers and stop the race to the bottom.