Madam, – Whether or not a strike was called for in response to the suspension of air traffic controllerst, it is interesting to see an array of politicians and capitalists complaining about unions causing misery for the public and ruin for the economy.
Presumably they thought they had done enough to claim this job all to themselves. – Yours, etc,
Madam, – There is no denying that the strike action by the air traffic controllers caused damage worth millions of euro to the Irish economy.
Have they not also infringed the right of thousands of EU citizens to freedom of movement around the union by denying them the ability to take off from or land at Dublin, Cork and Shannon? – Yours, etc,
Madam, – In the time of Connolly and Larkin, trade unions were established to protect the masses against the avarice of the few. When was their role reversed?
William Martin Murphy (chairman of the Dublin United Tramway Company at the time of the 1913 lockout) would be right at home in today’s Impact. – Yours, etc,