Delegate demands ICTU heads step down over ‘croppy boy’ leadership

A DELEGATE at the Irish Congress of Trade Unions biennial conference yesterday demanded that its entire leadership step down because they were leading their members in a pacifist “croppy boy manner”.

Referring to the theme of the conference “A better, fairer way”, Sinead McKenna of the Civil Public & Services Union (CPSU) said a more fitting title would have been “an even more placid, quieter way”.

“I got excited when I saw an ICTU document entitled “A Call To Action”. But after reading it I realised it is, in short, a call to circle the wagons,” she said. “Really we should be coming out shooting at this stage. It is yet another report about what we should do.”