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Fri 07 Jul 2009'Nonsense' to link wage cuts with national competitiveness
THE ASSISTANT general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (Ictu), Sally Anne Kinahan, has criticised as “utter nonsense”, suggestions by the head of the IDA that wage cuts were required in order to restore Ireland’s competitiveness.
Speaking at the Ictu’s biennial delegate conference in Tralee, she said that “even far-right economists concede that competitiveness is far more complex, complicated and about much more than wage levels”.
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