Unions want Government to cut millionaires’ earnings

THE Government has been told to “drag down” the earnings of Ireland’s millionaire minority whose wages are up to 350 times higher than the shop-floor worker.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions yesterday published its “state of the economy” document ahead of national pay talks which begin tomorrow.

A key premise of Economic Outlook 2008: Narrowing the Pay Gap is a blueprint ICTU wants the Government to adopt to stop the ever-rising wage packet of tax exiles and public and private top brass in the face of calls for wage restraint for the ordinary worker.