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Sat 03 Mar 2010Government aggravating crisis - O'Connor
The Government is deliberately cutting pay and allowing unemployment to rise in a bid to drive down private sector wages, Irish Congress of Trade Unions and Siptu president Jack O’Connor told delegates at the Sinn Féin ardfheis in the RDS today.
He said social cohesion in Ireland had been sacrificed on the “altar of appeasing the financial markets in the interests of rebuilding bondholder confidence,” and added that the country had swapped subservience to British rule to that of the financial markets.
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