Striking twice: pay deadlock looms again [thepost.ie]
- Last Updated: Sunday, 29 November 2009 10:19
‘The worst of weather and the best of people,” was Eamon Gilmore’s description of the public service workers who excluded their colleagues in the country’s flood-hit regions from last Tuesday’s strike action.
But not everyone shared the Labour Party leader’s image of a dedicated public service - particularly after it emerged that many of the strikers seemed to have joined a mass exodus of shoppers heading to the North for the day. The shutdown of schools and offices and the curtailment of hospital services by 250,000 public servants served further to polarise public sentiment and put the emphasis on the continuing pre-budget talks between unions and government.
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