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Unions Lost Touch

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  • 15-09-2009 11:02pm
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    ABEasy
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    Have the unions lost touch? Seems workers are more inclined to ignore the unions/strikes and pass the picket. The 2 most recent examples I know of are Dublin Port and Mr. Binman. What do you think? Are they thinking of the employees or themselves and the preceived greater good.....

    Link to dublin port injunction below..

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0915/dublinport.html

    ''The High Court has granted an injunction restraining SIPTU and the Irish Congress of Trade Union from distributing flyers about or publishing the personal details of people who have continued to work during a strike at the Marine Terminal company in Dublin Port.
    SIPTU members at the port handling company have been on strike for the last 10 weeks in a dispute over planned redundancies.
    Marine Terminals Limited had described the activities of the unions and some of its members as intimidatory and threatening.
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    The court heard that some of the defendants had travelled to the home town of one worker in Athy and distributed 150 posters naming him and branding him a 'scab'.
    SIPTU denied any knowledge of this incident. However, the court found that the union had supported and encouraged a campaign of 'naming and shaming'.
    Mr Justice Kevin Feeney granted the company an injunction preventing the unions and a number of named defendants, including SIPTU general secretary Joe O'Flynn and ICTU assistant general secretary Peter Bunting, from engaging in such activity.
    He also granted an injunction against three named defendants, Michael Gleeson, Jonathan O'Connell and Nigel Williamson, preventing them from intimidating, harassing or threatening people who had continued to work.
    Mr Justice Feeney ruled that workers were entitled to use strong language including the word 'scab' during protests outside the company's gates.
    However, he said in view of the illegal trespass that had occurred during a protest on 24 August, the incident in Athy and another incident of alleged intimidation on a garage forecourt, unions should be aware of the consequences of escalating the strike.
    A spokesman for SIPTU said the union was waiting for a written copy of the judgment and would carefully consider it.
    However, he said the union would vigorously defend its members in any forthcoming court case.''


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