Threatened cuts to public services in the forthcoming budget should motivate those who have witnessed the impact of previous slash and burn remedies on the most vulnerable in our communities to join the protest organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions on Saturday (24th November).
SIPTU members in the community and voluntary and health sectors, in particular, have organised for a big turn-out for the pre-Budget protest in order to demonstrate that alternatives to the current one-sided austerity approach are both feasible and necessary as outlined in the detailed strategies for jobs and growth advocated by SIPTU and Congress over many months.
Beyond these sectors, there are many thousands of people who have lost their jobs, seen a dramatic reduction in their incomes, watched their children emigrate for a better life or their family, friends and neighbours suffer from the severe cuts to public services who should also join the protest.
The rich and wealthy including the bankers that helped create the crisis have walked away virtually unscathed, and in many cases with bloated salaries and other benefits, from the pain induced by the crisis and the Troika imposed ‘adjustment’ programme.
Join the march on Saturday and add your voice to the demand that the Government adopts a New Course for jobs and growth and taxes the greedy – not the needy.