ICTU’S APRIL FOOLS’ DAY JOKE
Apr 1st, 2010 by Conor McCabe
Words fail me.
Two days after this, after having ‘negotiated’ a deal which hands the government pretty much everything it wants in terms of lacerations to the public sector and workers, ICTU publishes a bulletin telling us that the government is shifting the burden onto the unemployed, the working poor, the low-paid and the public service, and that something needs to be done about it. And fast.
Des Derwin of the Dublin Trades Union Council has a piece on the ICTU-inspired deal here on Irish Left Review.
The National Public Services Alliance has a statement on the deal here, also on Irish Left Review.
The council has outdone itself. It is a masterful piece, simply impossible to satirize.
Enjoy.
