SIPTU general secretary Jack O’Connor walked off the set of the Tonight with Vincent Browne show on TV3 last night, during a live discussion about the striking Dunnes Stores workers.
His move came after Mr Browne told Mr O’Connor TV3 doesn’t recognise collective bargaining.
He had encouraged fellow guests Socialist TD Ruth Coppinger Left) and journalist and author Eamon Delaney (centre), and even Vincent, to join him.
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Back against the wall with you S.I.P.T.U you failed utterly to protect your members and their families during austerity. Jack O’Conners been dining at the captains table too long, as disconnected as da rest an JUST one of dem bandwagon jumpers hopin on a community driven grass roots movement. The AAA at least don’t claim any control or influence over the protests, the unions are suddenly interested in their members communities because suddenly we’re important. But they’ve no interest beyond a short term political goal. where was he or the past 6 years? eatin cake while kids went hungry
To be honest, social partnership benefited everyone in the good times, not just people in unions. It’s the reaction to the crisis that has been so shocking, with the unions happy to sit on their hands, but for one march, while the workers were shouldered with the banking debts of property developers, etc. Now, seven years later, the likes of Johnny Ronan are out of NAMA while ordinary people lose their homes and pay USC and water taxes for decades to come.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rEsVp5tiDQ
‘Jumping Jack Flash, it’s a gas gas gas’
+1. Cheers
As if the plum didn’t know about TV3 and it’s position on unions all the previous times he appeared.
There is a reason why he’s been hidden in a broom closet in Liberty Hall for last 5 years.
Yes. Said closet leads to Narnia where jack has been involved in uniting all sentient flora and fauna against the capitalist tyranny of Boss Aslan.
Who’s been in there with him? (Apart from clamper’s Ma…)
+1
http://m.independent.ie/business/irish/siptu-boss-refuses-cut-to-124000-pay-26574030.html
…Jack O’Connor is living proof of that everyone has their price…he and the other union leaders were bought by Bertie and the only surprise is that the price was so low.
+1
The trade unions are nothing but gangsters running rackets up and down the country. It makes perfect sense that jumped-up skangers like Jack O’Connor are running the show.
It’s a good thing that your average Irish person no longer has that absurd fear of/reverence for the trade union movement of previous decades. Bertie de Socialist’s ‘social partnership’ programmes and the fallout therefrom destroyed any moral authority the trade unionists could have once claimed. Suppose that’s one thing we can thank FF for…
Jumped up skangers? Poor people should know their place I suppose?
I saw Ruth in the chipper the other day.
She really needs her roots done.
More news as we get it….
Hold all my calls.
*follows your twitter
I may have peaked.
This just in….
Ruth Copped-In-Chipper!
Fight!
She’s dyeing today.
Back in the chipper on Sunday with new do.
You’re turning Good Friday into Great Friday!
A permanent fixture.
Really nailing it
Jack of all trades and master of none. whats his current position on
water charges, stealth taxes, property tax and USC, will he organise
his members to boycott their implementation in their places of work
right across the arms of Government Agencies where many member of
his union are employed….,.,the Austerity Programme would be gone in
an hour….by walking off TV3 has not..whats his connection with the Labour
Party, what benefit has he been to the Members of SIPTU….none.
Let him walk.
Keep walking Jack you useless cur
Can you imagine living with Vincent.
That was like listening to a row in a home for the bewildered over a game of dominos
I think the unions in Ireland would receive a lot more support from the public if the likes of David Begg and Jack were not in charge.
Keep walking, O’Connor, you MoFo. Ireland doesn’t need you Bertie-era co-opted dinosaurs. Didn’t that social partnership work out sooooooo well….
Fair dues to #VINB for busting this creep as a @Labour Luvvie.
SIPTU will be looking for a “restoration” of the obscene pay levels given to some, not all, public sector workers. How they think we can afford this is beyond me. Efficiencies in the public service need to improve before this can happen.