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CURRENT ECONOMIC CRISIS

ACT NOW – FOR A BETTER, FAIRER WAY

26.02.2009
Our country is facing one of the greatest crises in its history. The implications for working people and their families are enormous. We need a clear plan to address the challenge facing us all based on the principle that everyone must contribute in accordance with their capacity to do so. That is why Congress set out the ten-point plan and the proposition for a three-year Agreement to provide stability. Over 120,000 people turned out to demonstrate against the Government's approach on Saturday, February 21. It was one of the biggest displays of public opinion ever seen in Ireland. Yet the Government and employers’ organisations remain undeterred. They are determined to resolve the crisis exclusively at the expense of working people who had no role whatever in creating it. Their strategy involves pay cuts across the economy as an alternative to devaluation of the currency in response to the fall in sterling and the dollar. Devaluation is in effect a pay cut by another name – but it applies to all sectors of society.
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SIPTU calls for campaign to promote better, fairer way of tackling economic crisis

10.02.2009
The SIPTU National Executive Council, in emergency session today, called for a united trade union campaign to promote a better, fairer way of addressing the problems in our economy than slashing the pay and conditions of workers.
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SIPTU President responds to Taoiseach’s ‘woolly words’ on Social Partnership

06.02.2009
Commenting on the Taoiseach’s speech to the Dublin Chamber of Commerce last night, SIPTU General President Jack O’Connor said today, “We noted his desire to maintain the social partnership process, which is okay as far as it goes. However, despite all the woolly words about ‘working together’, the fact of the matter is that the only people he has inflicted pain upon in last Tuesday’s announcement are those who have to work for others for a living, while not a cent is required of the wealthy.
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SIPTU says historic opportunity to create a fairer society to face challenge of economic crisis is being lost

03.02.2009
SIPTU General President Jack O’Connor said this evening that he “very much regrets the failure to reach agreement on a social solidarity pact in our discussions with the Government to address the issues facing ordinary people as a result of ten years of recklessness on the part of those at the top in our society. The economic crisis threatens everyone in Ireland but it also offers an opportunity to develop a genuine national effort to which all sectors of society could contribute in accordance with their capacity to do so.
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PRIVATE SECTOR MANAGERS MADE MOST IN BOOM

30.11.2009
A call for a more reasoned debate on the economy was made by SIPTU Head of Research, Manus O’Riordan, today. He was speaking at the launch of an analysis of wage trends since the late 1990s, with a particular emphasis on the period since 2005. Entitled, ‘Separating Fact from Fiction on Earnings: The Use and Abuse of Statistics’, it shows that the largest single divergence in pay over the past decade has not been between public and private sector workers but between private sector managers and all other groups.
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