Workers ‘frustrated’ at politicians’ handling of housing crisis

WORKERS are desperately looking to the trade union movement to sort out the housing crisis, a SIPTU official claimed yesterday.

Workers ‘frustrated’ at politicians’ handling of housing crisis

“Our members are very frustrated with the way the crisis has been handled by the politicians and now looking to us to do something about what can only be described as an appalling situation,” said Eric Fleming, organiser of the Dublin trade union’s annual May Day March.

Mr Fleming, SIPTU’s construction and allied trades branch secretary, said a national housing authority along the lines proposed by the National Economic and Social Forum (NESF) over two-and-a-half years ago was needed to rein in soaring house prices.

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