Union let down by ICTU and the minister

MY union, the Prison Officers’ Association, has been let down by ICTU. They have stood back in the face of union-bashing on a scale not seen in a lifetime in this country.

It is intimidation on a grand scale.

What the Minister for Justice is saying in effect is that staff in the four prisons to be closed, plus the one already closed, represent an acceptable casualty level in the war he is waging on the POA.