ICTU leader should not engage in party politics

SIPTU president Jack O’Connor has called for a general election.

He states that he has “refrained from making such a call as I do not believe it is good for trade union leaders to put ourselves at such odds with the Government” and then proceeds to do just that by calling for the dissolution of the Government.

This is straightforward party politics. His union gives political and financial support to one political party, Labour.