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03/04/2009
CPSU Warn Of Pay Cuts' Resistance
The main civil service union has said it will oppose any Government plans for paycuts in the emergency budget next week.
Civil and Public Services Union (CPSU) General Secretary Blair Horan said low-paid civil servants, were already facing hardship over rising house prices and child care costs, and would pay for the mess created since the 1990s through cuts to their pay.
Speaking at the CPSU annual conference in Galway, Mr Horan added the union's 13,000 members would decide on a strategy off opposition to any cuts, and would intensify industrial action over the controversial pension levy imposed in the previous budget.
Delegates at the conference voted to up their campaign of industrial action against the public-sector pension levy at the conference in Galway today.
Members said they would now extend their industrial action to a number of areas, including revenue and driving-test centres.
Meanwhile, delegates at the conference also passed a motion calling on the Irish Congress of Trade Unions to organise a one-day strike among all public-sector workers.
(DW/BMcC)
Civil and Public Services Union (CPSU) General Secretary Blair Horan said low-paid civil servants, were already facing hardship over rising house prices and child care costs, and would pay for the mess created since the 1990s through cuts to their pay.
Speaking at the CPSU annual conference in Galway, Mr Horan added the union's 13,000 members would decide on a strategy off opposition to any cuts, and would intensify industrial action over the controversial pension levy imposed in the previous budget.
Delegates at the conference voted to up their campaign of industrial action against the public-sector pension levy at the conference in Galway today.
Members said they would now extend their industrial action to a number of areas, including revenue and driving-test centres.
Meanwhile, delegates at the conference also passed a motion calling on the Irish Congress of Trade Unions to organise a one-day strike among all public-sector workers.
(DW/BMcC)
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