Union to vote on protest campaign

THE 45,000-member Technical Engineering and Electrical Union will today decide whether to support a campaign of civil disobedience if the Government does not call a general election.

The union’s executive has put the motion down for discussion at its biennial delegate conference in Galway. In the motion, the executive says the union “condemns the Government for its criminal negligence in the management of the economy and for colluding with the banks in misleading the Irish people as to the seriousness of the crisis we face”.

Also at the conference TEEU general secretary Eamon Devoy will warn delegates that he believes “we are on the brink of significant civil unrest in this country, the like of which has not been witnessed in this jurisdiction for decades”.