Prices soar, wages stagnate, but unions still sign up to sweetheart deals
Over the period of these sweetheart agreements between the Government employers and unions (the corporate state), housing prices have escalated, hospital waiting lists have increased and indirect taxation (stealth tax) has been applied to most goods and services - not to mention the price of groceries and the pint. All of this while wage increases are kept low with the assistance of the ICTU.
The privatisation of State companies, such as Irish Ferries, went ahead without a peep from the unions. Now SIPTU are complaining because Irish workers are being replaced by cheap non-national labour. A bit late, don’t you think?
