Fair play to people not getting bullied and forced into wage cuts and working conditions to suit the employer all the time, the powers that be think that just because were in a recession that suddenly employers can treat employees like crap. The unions in this country need to grow more brass nuts and look after the people there suppose to be protecting much better rather than just taking there fat pay packets and being in the pockets of the government

This looks like a weak attempt to make workers feel ashamed for standing up for their rights!

How come we rarely (or ever) see the CSO publish figures on the bosses and the mulit-nationals who bleed the state dry?

The centenary of the 1913 Dublin Lockout is next year. I hope it encourages more workers to strike for what they deserve and leads to a situation where syndicalism and general strikes become acceptable again and not something to be feared (thanks to the traitorous Union leadership of Begg and O’Connor) or thought of as a last resort.

The summer of discontent will roll over to a larger winter of discontent…!!!

All down to employers taking financial advantage of the recession to make even bugger profits. And Govt policies of reaping the workforce for more and more cash to keep themselves wealthy with Pensions, Pay, Expenses & Perks…!!!

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What a ridiculous and sensationalist headline.

By the same method of calculation, 1720 YEARS worth of workdays (based on a five-day work week, of course) were lost each DAY, that’s each DAY in July 2012 due to unemployment. . This calculation uses the seasonally adjusted live register figure for July from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) (447,200).