Decentralisation ‘treats staff as commodities’

CIVIL servants in Dublin will never co-operate with the decentralisation programme while they continue to be treated as commodities, the country’s largest trade union claimed last night.

SIPTU’s regional secretary Mike Jennings said the Government’s attitude towards decentralisation was denying rural towns an economic windfall.

“I would love to see more workers coming to our region but coming because they want to come not because they have to come, not forced to come by threats and intimidation,” he pointed out.