Anti-Household Charge group targets local authority workers

The Campaign Against the Household Charge is to ask local authority workers not to play any role in sending out warning letters to homeowners who fail to the pay the charge.

Campaigners are to meet with trade unions representing council staff to ask them not to prepare or send out, what they say, are threatening letters which allow the implementation of the charge.

President of the Dublin Council of Trade Unions, Mick O'Reilly, has said it is not good enough for local authority workers who oppose the tax to play any role in encouraging others to pay.