communication workers union

sixtysix

this is an old story from the sunday business post about a proposed campaign by the communication workers union against the reelection of dermot ahern in his louth constituency
in view of the information now known about the remuneration package of con scanlon general secretary of the cwu it strikes me as absolutley fascinating.
http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2003/11/30/story168600411.asp

spongebob

This was planned Before we knew that the head of the CWU has personally guoged over €1m out of Eircom , much of it in pension top ups.

It was also planed before eircom announced the highest line rental charges in the EU in January 2004.

I suspect that the CWU will keep very very quiet, there are 14,000 employee shareholders in eircom (of whom half have left the company if not more) . There are 500,000 small shareholders out there who were ripped off by the CWU and the eircom management in the 1999 float.

M

jbkenn

Extract from SBP article here
http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2003/11/30/story168600411.asp

"We could light up the country in the morning if there was demand for broadband," said the union. "But people just don't want it. Not yet, anyway."

Well the CWU www.cwu.ie Annual Chinwag and Beanfeast is being held in the Radisson Hotel Galway from the 28th to 30th of April , perhaps we should organise a picket of the conference, and, help raise Con's awareness on the lack of demand for Broadband.

jbkenn

p.s. Have a look at their website and you will undwerstand why they have no grasp of the possibilities of an E information society
http://www.cwu.ie/html/AN_post_Ballot_Press.htm

sixtysix

what fascinates me about the whole yarn is that while i expect a commercial entity to atempt to maximise profits i had never expected a trade union to become as complicit as the cwu did in attempting to prevent the spread of broadband.
by their actions they stand accused of reducing the competiveness of this country and directly jeopardising the jobs prospects of thousands of their fellow workers.

oscarBravo

In an interesting twist on the CWU angle, they've managed to further impede the rollout of broadband: the application to incorporate Knockmore Community Network Society Ltd as a co-op is sitting in a pigeonhole in a sorting office somewhere in Dublin. Until the co-op is incorporated, we can't open a bank account, borrow money, buy equipment...

Isn't life grand?

ssh

Originally posted by jbkenn

p.s. Have a look at their website and you will undwerstand why they have no grasp of the possibilities of an E information society
http://www.cwu.ie/html/AN_post_Ballot_Press.htm

Wow. Evidently the hard of sight aren't worthy of their communication. What a shower of igno...

now now. eat the calm pill.