DIVIDING public and private sector workers is merely a Government-inspired attempt to weaken the labour movement, was the key message from trade union leaders to tens of thousands partaking in ICTU’s National Day of Protest yesterday.

ELECTRICIANS are preparing to strike to prevent their employers from hijacking the system which decides pay increases for themselves and hundreds of thousands of other Irish workers.

The scent of freshly cut timber mixed with the stench of powerful disinfectants and the smell of rotting corpses today as empty coffins were piled up behind a hospital morgue in Bali.