Tynan calls for a NO vote on Fiscal Treaty

Councillor Ted Tynan has called for a NO vote on the EU Fiscal Treaty referendum which takes place on Thursday, 31st May.

Cllr. Tynan said that if the treaty is passed it will mean more of the economic misery and hardship that the Irish people and other Europeans have had to endure these last number of years.

We have had years years of Austerity budgets which have increased unemployment, led to the return of emigration, pay cuts and loss of pensions, households in mortgage distress, the education and health service budgets slashed and social welfare targeted for cutbacks.

New taxes like the Household Charge and proposed Water Charges hit those most in need not those who can afford to pay more.

The proposed Treaty will decree that this is the only possible economic policy for any future government to follow and will guarantee further austerity and pain for decades to come.

It means a loss of our political and economic sovreignty and the transfer of powers to unaccountable and unelected bureaucrats in the European Commission and the European Court of Justice.

The Workers' Party has set up a special website with information on its no campaign. You can visit the website at www.workerseurope.ie

Public Meeting in Cork

The Workers' Party will hold a public meeting on the Fiscal Treaty on Wednesday, 16th May at the Metropole Hotel, Mac Curtain Street, Cork at 8.00pm.  

The speakers will be:-

• Michael Donnelly,  lecturer in sociology and politics in Galway
• Councillor Ted Tynan, Workers Party, Cork City Council
• James Coughlan, trade unionist, WP activist from Churchfield

All are welcome.

Vita Cortex settlement is tremendous news says Tynan

Vita Cortex offices on Cork's Kinsale Road

Cork Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan has described as “tremendous news” the settlement tonight (Wednesday) of the Vita Cortex dispute following a 139 day sit in by 32 workers at the Cork plant in order to get an acceptable redundancy deal.

Cllr. Tynan said that the news was what all of Cork had been waiting to hear and he praised the workers saying they had been an inspiration to the people of Cork, Ireland and the wider world.  Their dispute, he pointed out, had been just 6 days shorter than the Dublin Lockout of 1913 but unlike that dispute the Vita Cortex workers had ultimately won out.

“The Vita Cortex workers and their families”, said Cllr. Tynan, “have endured five months of hardship and uncertainty.  The strain on them and their wider families and communities must have been enormous but they saw it through with unstinting determination aided by the absolute justness of their cause”.

The Workers Party councillor concluded by saying it was now incumbent on the government and the trade union movement to ensure that no other workers in the future would have to endure such difficulties in achieving just settlement after their years of service.