Bin tax campaign seek union support

TRADE unionists nationwide are being urged to back the anti-bin tax campaign as Dublin prepares for a mass protest today outside Mountjoy Prison where Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins and his colleague, Councillor Clare Daly, are being held.

Both were sent to prison for a month on Friday for defying a High Court injunction, granted to Fingal Co Council, which sought to prohibit them from obstructing refuse collections in North Dublin.

Campaign spokeswoman and SP councillor Ruth Coppinger yesterday renewed her call to the trade union movement, in particular, and union members who were faced with the bin tax, to support the campaign.