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Photo Essay from Dublin May Day March
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Monday April 30, 2007 12:45 by Mags
Hundreds of people turned out for this years May Day march with a diverse represenation from unions, campaigns, communities and left wing political groups. The music at Custom House Quay, the stalls and the opening of the viewing gallery in Liberty Hall made for a much improved May Day celebration. The theme of the day was Global Day for Fair Pay and it was organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions and the ICTU Youth Committee.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7There was a large number of union banners out for the day
Teachers Union of Ireland
Union band
UNISON
Workers Party
Sinn Fein
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Labour Party
Free Palestine
Residents Against Racism
Workers Solidarity Movement
Trinity Labour
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Communist Party of Ireland
Connolly Youth Movement
Eirigi
Community Workers Action Group
UCD Labour
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Samba
Stalls in the Custom House Gardens
Sound system
View from Liberty Hall viewing gallery
Bealtaine dathannach, gan aon agó!
UNION leaders used yesterday’s annual May Day rally in Dublin to call for greater protections for Ireland’s increasing number of migrant workers. President of the Dublin Council of Trade Unions, Arthur Hall, told hundreds of marchers at the Global Day for Fair Pay rally that defending labour rights was important for social stability.
“If we want to prevent the sort of racist backlash that deteriorating economic conditions have generated elsewhere we must be uncompromising in our defence of decent labour standards for all. We must carry the war to bad employers by naming and shaming them wherever they are and the policy of a Global day for fair pay must apply every day of the year, not just on May Day.”
He said the country’s 200,000 migrant workers, particularly those from outside the European Union, were among the most vulnerable section of the labour force and faced a bleak future without the support of the trade union movement. Mr Hall also said the trend of companies operating globally meant pay and working conditions across the economy had been driven down by employers.
Akidwa, Ireland’s African Women’s Forum, said migrant workers were being paid as little as €4 an hour for an 80-hour working week. Workers were also being denied promotion, pay rises, written contracts, job descriptions and even pay slips, the forum said.
irishexaminer.com
How can you have a May Day march in April?