Public servants sold out every step of the way

CROKE Park, a place dear to the hearts of all Irish people, has been tainted by a shameful association.

There, the general secretaries of all the public service unions sat down with the Government seeking to reverse the pay cuts and emerged with no reversal of any kind but instead a recipe for the complete destruction of the public services right across the land.

But no sooner had the club of general secretaries emerged from the talks than reality began to reassert itself. One after another, the elected executive committees of the different unions, having read in horror the text of the proposals, said no. TUI led, followed by ASTI, INMO, CPSU, IFUT, UNITE and POA.