Cllr Lacey (Labour) and Cllr Nial Ring (Independent) have come out in support of the privitisation of street cleaning services in defiance of SIPTU, Trade Union, Shop stewards and DCC waste management workers. Both Cllrs are on the Board of the ‘BID/We are Dublin Town’ a private Company and a Quango which has basically been engaged in misinformation and scaremongering in the face of many businesses who wish to end their involvement with this quango.
(See statement here:
http://www.wearedublintown.ie/2017/07/cllrs-reaffirm-council-no-budget-dublintown-cleaning-service/
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This is the letter, below, that SIPTU issued to Owen Keegan (CEO Dublin City Council) and also to all street cleaning workers on July 10th.
I find it difficult to understand how Cllr Lacey and Cllr Nial Ring who profess to be ardent trade unionists, indeed Cllr Lacey is a member of the ‘Labour party’, can come out against the Dublin City Council workers and Trade union members who have great concerns about losing their jobs to private companies like ‘BID/Dublintown”.
These double standards need to be exposed irrespective of the outcome of Monday’s vote on the BID/Dublintown.
It really is unprecedented that Cllr Lacey and Cllr Ring would issue such a contemptuous disregarding press statement in support of a private company. A true slap in the face to the DCC workers they are elected to protect!
We all know what happened and what is still happening as a result of privatizing, general waste and the bins.
Let’s keep it Council.
Letter sent by SIPTU officials to City Manager, Owen Keegan with the concerns their workers have in relation to BID
Letter sent by SIPTU officials to City Manager, Owen Keegan with the concerns their workers have in relation to BID
Mannix Flynn 