Democracy, Irish section of the Fourth International Just last week the Sunday Tribune celebrated the massive new wealth recently acquired by the Irish business class. The paper took satisfaction in declaring that the total declared wealth of Ireland's richest. people amounted to a staggering £8.5 billion; undeclared wealth is thought to be even bigger.
The average declared wealth of the 100 richest was thought to be around £85 million. It would take the average waged worker 6,535 years to accumulate such a figure.
The economy is booming but workers' wages are pegged to a partnership deal which keeps pay rises to a mere two per cent per annum. Worst of all under the cover of social partnership the unions are being expelled from whole sectors of industry in Ireland.
The rot can only be stopped by following the example of the building workers who won by ignoring the ethos and apparatus of social partnership.
If Ryanair continues to resist the call for union recognition Dublin airport should be brought to a standstill by secondary action until they capitulate.