Thousands take to streets to vent fury at Government

THOUSANDS of private and public sector workers will converge on Dublin this afternoon to express outrage at the Government’s handling of the economic crisis.

The 2pm protest may be the last step before the trade union movement begins mass strikes across all sectors.

Unions have organised today’s protest because they feel their members are bearing the brunt of economic recovery while groups like builders and bankers, who they feel created the crisis, are contributing nothing. In particular, the public service pension levy has angered workers in that sector, while those in the private sector are protesting at the Government’s failure to protect workers from rising unemployment.