Comments on: TEEU pickets mounted accross city

By: jackbuilder

jackbuilder — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:12:09 +0000

Its important to build relationships. In this case you can feel for the electricians and tradesmen, but on the otherhands cojntractors and feeling the pinch of the economic climate.

By: DJ

DJ — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:39:49 +0000

Greedy bastards and nothing more. They should realise that as valuble as they think they are, their job can still be done by anyone following steps from a book. Get back to work you lazy fuckers, or move on so some real hard working people can take over your jobs.

By: John

John — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:42:50 +0000

Whats a disgrace is that if you're really experienced and at the Job 20 years you get €21p/h and if you're on the job (qualified) 5 mins you get €21 p/h.

By: laughie

laughie — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:33:38 +0000

so its 1st year apprentices that you meant to say he is talking about getting 5.60 and hour. Well sorry Dafydd but people that choose to go to college for 4 years would love to be getting 5.60 an hour for their efforts…these guys are earning a trade like any student – but they have the privilege of getting paid for it at the same time…How bad. Also €43,680 a year is well above the average industrial wage of €35 k a year…and that was in the good times…and thats not even taking into account tom jobs and what they were charging house owners for small jobs until recently….please get your facts right before you start bleating…..you sound like soemthing off a monty python movie……you are a disgrace….

By: me

me — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:02:01 +0000

They don't deserve any support.

By: Daffyd

Daffyd — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:33:33 +0000

Thatcherism is dead. Get over it.

Workers weren't going to allow themselves be trod on forever.

A backlash was inevitable. And this is just the beginning.

By: Daffyd

Daffyd — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:31:39 +0000

@laughie

Try and keep up sunshine. Cuts to the 2007 rates of pay would mean €5.60 per hour for first year apprentices: http://www.teeu.ie/enjic_downloads/Rates_leafle...

Since I posted however, the TEEU have forced the employers into withdrawing the pay cut demand. Making a stand pays dividends again!

If an electrician worked for €21p/h for 40 hours a week for 52 weeks a year, he'd earn €43,680 per annum. A little over the average industrial wage. That's not outrageous for skilled workers who perform a very necessary and important function in our economy.

And as I stated before, the electricians struggle is a struggle in defence of the REA system and consequently a struggle on behalf of 100s of thousands of low paid and mostly non-unionised workers across this country.

SUPPORT OUR SPARKIES!

By: johnone

johnone — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:26:07 +0000

While I do feel the electricians and Unions are making a mistake in calling this strike I despair when we have comment from the unemployed and workers on being anti – union and anti a decent wage. Our corrupt government have done a great job turning workers against workers.

By: jkeane

jkeane — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:50:47 +0000

Right on Jimmy. They are a shower of selfish …. who should take a look at the dole queues before they bitch about earning only 21 euro per hour

By: laughie

laughie — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:06:49 +0000

But sure you CAN NOT compare those incidents with the sparks on strike. They were companies that were laying off their workers???? The sparks are looking to go from 21 euro to 23 euro an hour (or something like that). Those kind of arguements just make people dislike the sparks strike more and more……I have never heard such crap in my life. Where did Tom Parlon say he wanted them to be working for 5.50 an hour????