TEEU calls for union campaign against bin taxes

Shop stewards from the Technical, Engineering and Electrical Union have called for an emergency meeting of the Dublin Council of Trade Unions to organise a campaign of protest against bin charges in the city and the jailing of anti-bin tax campaigners.

At a meeting last night, the TEEU shop stewards voted to condemn the imposition of bin taxes, describing them as a form of double taxation that particularly affects PAYE workers and the less well-off.