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2009

Frontline Alliance to meet ICTU on Monday to co-ordinate activities on November 6th

Date Released: 30 Oct 2009

The Frontline Services Alliance agreed today to fully support the Irish Congress of Trade Unions protests in Dublin and other centres next Friday, November 6th. Alliance representatives are meeting with ICTU on Monday to discuss how best to co-ordinate their activities with Congress to maximise support for the campaign for ‘a better, fairer way’ of tackling the economic crisis and protecting vital services to the public.

The Alliance will also be meeting with a number of other organisations that wish to join the Frontline campaign on Tuesday. These include the Medical Laboratory Scientists’ Association, Unite, the TEEU and UCATT.

The Alliance will monitor the bout of intensive talks due to begin on Tuesday between Congress, the Government, IBEC and other social partners. Those members of the Alliance who are not members of the ICTU will be kept briefed on a daily basis on how talks are progressing.

“The Psychiatric Nurses’ Association, Garda Representative Association and Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors are not members of the ICTU but the outcome of the renewed talks on a national agreement will affect their members conditions of employment and the level of services they will be able to provide to the public”, the Chairman of the Alliance, Des Kavanagh said after today’s meeting.

Mr Kavanagh, who is General Secretary of the Psyhiatric Nurses’ Association added that, “These workers outside the talks will have a vital role to play, whatever the outcome of those negotiations, on the way we, as a society meet the challenges ahead. So it is only fair that they be kept up to date on what is happening in the negotiations in order that they can make informed decisions for the future.”





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