O’Toole lambasts employers as thousands of workers take to streets

THOUSANDS of people from all over the country marched in protest over redundancy payments yesterday as union bosses warned that unless the Government and employers’ group IBEC agreed to improve the low payments there would be no new national pay deal.

“I think at times it would be easier to do business with the Sopranos than it would with IBEC,” said Irish Congress of Trade Unions President Senator Joe O’Toole said.

However, an IBEC spokesperson described the turnout at many centres nationwide as a dismal failure for the trade unions.