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Young workers’ protest against social welfare cuts at Dáil
SIPTU President says Budget 2014 requires much renovation
SIPTU Dublin bus drivers to vote on latest proposals next week
Permanent liquidator expected to be appointed to Andersen Ireland Ltd on Monday
SIPTU Home Helps meeting in Galway to discuss new contracts
Special Report
Jack O’Connor states that harsh budget will provoke private sector pay demands
Patricia King tells Conference that 'establishment' will resist collective bargaining
RMT leader Bob Crow addresses Conference
Irish Senior Citizens Parliament Protest
Sinn Féin Mansion House Event
Dublin Lockout – Impact and Objects
SIPTU welcomes Review of Joint Labour Committees
The 1913 Lockout Tapestry
Defending the Public University
DCU is a place of learning not just enterprise
Jack O'Connor calls for Social Solidarity to underpin the rebuilding of the Republic, One Hundred Years on
SIPTU members regret unavailability of some Dublin Fine Gael TDs to discuss budget proposals
Thirty-Seventh Countess Markievicz Memorial Lecture
Successful Fair Hotels Expo held in Liberty Hall
European Social Justice Award Goes to Irish Campaigners
100th Anniversary Wreath Laying Ceremony
End of an Era
Lockout Tapestry and trade union banners exhibition in Dublin
100th Anniversary of the Arrival of the SS Hare Food Ship in Dublin
The New Theatre presents 1913 LOCKOUT
Féile na Samhna
Budget unfairly hits young and old
Zero-hours Contracts
CityWide
The Risen People
TASC is recruiting!
Exhibition
Larkin Credit Union
Fair Hotels
SIPTU Membership Services
Fair Hotel
SIPTU Basic English Scheme
Supporting Quality
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RMT leader Bob Crow addresses Conference

In a rousing speech to delegates at the second day of the SIPTU Biennial Delegate Conference, RMT General Secretary, Bob Crow, said his union was committed to “militant trade unionism.

“I won’t stab you in the back I’ll stab you in the front,” Crow said in a speech in which he called for politicians that court trade unionists’ support before elections but then forgot about them when in office to be “scrubbed” and replaced.


He said: “If they are not prepared to fight for working men and women then we must find ones that are.”

He condemned the privatisation of public utilities saying that their private owners were only interested in “screwing the customer to the floor.”

While stating that globalisation was not necessarily bad for workers, Crow added that the way in which it was working out in reality only benefited corporations and the wealthy.

He said: “Globalisation could bring us the best, but it doesn’t.”

Paying tribute to the men and women of the 1913 Lockout, Crow apologised for the leadership of his union’s failure to support them at the time. However he paid tribute to the “rank and file members” who did raise funds for the Dublin workers.

Crow addressed the second day of the SIPTU Biennial Conference in the Round Room of the Mansion House, Dublin. The day also included debates on how to increase the involvement of young people in the trade union movement and the unemployment crisis.
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