Kevin Keating & In the South of Ireland, largest monthly increase in UHCH8PUYIRCHE output 7.1% in the third quarter of the year. This has affected tax rer22 Toe forecasted surplus turned into Grin and bear it: Bertie Ahems Privatisation is seen as the solution - not the problem!
The fact that workers are being asked to sell their pay and conditions for more and moment challenge elect without challenge. we puvausuon tacooz soc ick a long way to the orig l break-up of the compan HAKO components ncludin TEAM. airports nd Aer Lingus itself The strategy of diversification under state ownership doned and the result is the remains the company national capital.
The reason now given for EU rules forbid it. What a= sick joke. The whole Irish private investment, including millions of pounds given each year in hand outs to multinationals through grants and tax concostons And after all didn't the Irish people reject the diktats of the EU bureaucracy in the Nice referendum anyway? applauding rash strikes at Aer Lingus and the more of some workers from SIPTU to MANDATE. At similar to moving the deck chairs on the Titanic. So it has proved.
The union bureaucracy was unchallenged and remains firmly in control. It does no more than appear on television bleating about saving a national asset and being ridiculed and humiliated by Ryanair's Michael O'Leary The Aer Lingus workers now face the same future as those of Bircom where Anthony O'Reilly has declared that he will replace casting workers on can Sctvice terms and conditions with flexible time employees.
There is of course another alternative it means relecting the existing union lead. ers and rejecting pursuit of tised and increasingly helpless company. demanding full state investment to keep the company viable and workers control of the company so that it is kept out of the hands of the so-called 'experts"
These are the sort of people could think of nothing better to do with Telecom Birann than split it up and sell it off -at a loss to everyone but them-