UNION CONFERENCE:THE COUNTRY'S largest trade union, Siptu, has called on members of the Green Party to reject the Nama legislation when they meet to consider the issue today.
However, at the closing session of the union’s biennial conference in Tralee, Co Kerry, yesterday, delegates rejected calls to hold a mass protest outside the Green Party meeting.
Siptu president Jack O’Connor told delegates that “the Green Party, for all its faults, was not responsible for what has happened.
“They were not in power when the decisions were taken that sowed the seeds for the current crisis.
“What is happening tomorrow is that they will be forced to choose if their legacy is to be to serve as an instrument by which this debt is transferred from those who created it to the taxpayer, which means effectively the PAYE taxpayer, or is their legacy to be to help rescue us all from it,” Mr O’Connor said.
Mr O’Connor said Siptu would be mobilising members on a mass scale from November 6th onwards on Nama and other issues.
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions is to hold a day of countrywide demonstrations on November 6th.
