SR Technics employees are currently protesting outside Government Buildings against the decision to close the Dublin branch of the operation. 1,135 jobs are being lost with the closure. This is the second protest by employees this week having held a demonstration at the Swiss Embassy in Dublin last Friday the 6th of March.
The Irish Times reports that approximately 13,000 CPSU members are to stage lunchtime protests next Thursday against the Governments’ introduction of a levy on public sector pensions. The protest is expected to last for about an hour affecting Government departments and the Revenue Commissioners in particular.
Yesterday, it was reported about 6,000 CPSU members staged a similar protest where they refused to answer phones while over 500 SIPTU members marched through the village of Swords in Co.Dublin in protest against the levy also.
The “Taxi Drivers For Change” (TDFC) campaign took to the streets on wheels on Thursday, finally hitting their city centre destination at government buildings around 1.30pm, about an hour later than originally scheduled. The group claim that some 2,500 taxis made the journey from the three designated starting points around the city for the protest on Kildare Street while the Irish Times reports the figure was around 1,000, according to Garai on duty. Taxis continued to arrive into the city centre in groups leaning on car horns until about 3.30pm that afternoon.
It’s unclear how effective their stand has been thus far although speaking to one driver on Thursday evening, he felt as though they were making a difference and how their campaign had “really started to snowball”. Details of further protests haven’t been out lined but the TDFC website is telling visitors to “Keep an eye here for updates on the next Protest!”.
