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Tue 07 Jul 2009Jobs and economy to dominate Ictu conference
WHEN THE trade union movement last met collectively in conference two years ago former taoiseach Bertie Ahern infamously wondered aloud as to why people who criticised the economy did not “commit suicide”.
Two years later, with the concerns of many of these same critics having come to pass, the biennial conference of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (Ictu) which opens in Tralee today will be dominated by the economy, soaring unemployment and threats to jobs pay and conditions in the public sector.
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