SIPTU demands return to negotiations

THE trade union movement must embark on a determined and united campaign to reverse the Government’s public service pension levy, SIPTU general president Jack O’Connor said yesterday.

The leader of the country’s largest union, which represents 70,000 public servants, demanded that the Government return to the negotiating table and agree “a social solidarity pact to avoid catastrophe in our society”.

He said to confront the levy will require “the most determined, united and sustained campaign the trade union movement has embarked upon in its entire history. No single union will succeed on its own”.