Mass union gathering to fight cuts

HUNDREDS of disaffected public sector workers will converge on Galway tomorrow for an update on the ongoing industrial action in protest at the budget pay cuts in the sector.

Unions representing 175,000 of the country’s 300,000 public servants have arranged a mass meeting of members in the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology.

The event will be addressed by four senior trade union leaders, SIPTU and Irish Congress of Trade Unions president Jack O’Connor, newly chosen general secretary designate ofIMPACT Shay Cody, Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation general secretary Liam Doran and Irish National Teachers Organisation general secretary designate Sheila Nunan.