All workers need a pay rise and the minimum wage must rise.
While prices soar many companies continue to post enormous profits, workers can’t be left to pick up the tab for spiraling inflation.#PayClaimsNow #RaiseTheMinimumWage pic.twitter.com/Tt4sEUkVQ2
— People Before Profit (@pb4p) February 8, 2022
THis morning.
PBP-Solidarity TDs Mick Barry (top right) and Paul Murphy on the plinth discussing the group’s Private Members Motion on the Minimum Wage, Carbon Tax, and the cost of living.
Meanwhile….
…..Catherine Murphy, Social Democrats co-leader, said:
“Core social welfare rates – which were only increased by a paltry €5 in January – should be increased by a further €5. We know pensioners are among those most impacted by high energy costs. A €5 increase to the pension, which had not been increased for two years, was never going to be enough. The minimum wage must also be increased to factor in record levels of inflation.
“The fuel allowance should be extended beyond March and must also be paid to low income earners in receipt of the Working Family Payment. Currently, they are ineligible for this payment. The Exceptional Needs Fund should be doubled, and restrictions loosened, so that families at risk of fuel poverty can be assisted.
“A €300 refundable tax credit, for those earning below €50,000, should also be introduced. This would target support to those low and middle income earners who desperately need it. As it stands, the government is about to spend more than €6 million on electricity credits for holiday homes. This is not a good use of State resources.”
More taxes on the ever-squeezed middle!
What a great wee country to get shafted in
And as wages go up so do prices
Soon you will be paying €6.00 for a latte
Get ready for the crash
Resident logistics expert Giggidy says we get the shafting we deserve
Is any member of Government a “worker” or is just everybody else in society is a “worker”?
Jaysus those communists haven’t a clue
Tackle the real problem the great Irish rip off .
The figures are all there from banks to insurance to utilities .
They could lock us all up during the pandemic trampling over all our constitutional rights but cannot say boo to the bankers landlords that has our cost of living higher than nearly every nation in Europe .
And if you think the lefties and Sinn Fein will solve it forget it.
Companies will flee this country and businesses will sell up before they fold due to costs so high they make no money and get taxed to oblivion .
As for deposits ,that money will just flow out of the country ,and you cannot blame anyone that can move anything that cannot be nailed down .