The 26 Counties.The privatisation of refuse services and waste recycling..

 The demands of Auld Dacency can not be reconciled with the state of Dear Old Dirty Dublin. The privatisation of refuse collection cannot be reconciled with employer-government-employee bargaining at a national level.

This is the underhand,shabby legacy of Ahern. It is not cost-effective. Privatisation is a monstrous burden on the low-waged and poor. It is absolutely by any measure impossible to justify or see the rationale behind privatisation in this instance.

Why would a renegade former FWUI official deal such a blow to organised labour?

This is value-added,bubble economic vulturism.

The ICTU should  not have allowed this contract to have gone to a a private operator.

Privatisation of refuse collection is an exercise in neo-liberalism,a bizarre run out of fictitious capital.

If there were questions of performance and a top-heavy workforce,the contract could have gone to a cooperative or company limited by guarantee,not a get-riçh-quick operator.

The same goes for college catering in Dublin City University and services providers in cleaning and maintenance in hospitals and railway stations.

I have witnessed the decent,ordinary people who work in the North and South of Ireland and I know that they are hardworking and modest. Workers make very moderate demands and live humble, respectable lives in public housing.

Sometimes,standards in Dublin are low but strict inspections and labour flexibility would remedy these features of in public services.

That does not involve beating the bull on the workers' back.

By increasing social expectations and reducing enormous differences in purchasing power and facing down at-times obstructive friendly societies,all problems in labour organisation can be resolved.

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