Tesco have announced that long serving members of staff are on ‘inflexible contracts’ and are demanding that they take wage cuts. Cllr Gino Kenny from People Before Profit DMW has claimed that “This move reflects the true nature of the Irish ‘recovery- it is being built on a low wage economy. “About 1,000 members of…
Real recovery for 99% means challenging rule of 1% – Apple should pay back taxes, establish minimum effective corporation tax rate of 12.5%, introduce Millionaire’s Tax and establish debt audit commission Public investment to develop quality services & infrastructure, strategic enterprise and create decent jobs Scrap austerity taxes and reverse austerity cuts Fight for equality…
Apple boss Tim Cook flew into Brussels on Thursday to lobby the EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestage over a landmark judgement that could see the company forced to pay billions in back taxes to the Irish government. Bloomberg Intelligence estimates that the potential windfall for the Irish Revenue Commissioners could be €8 billion while JP Morgan…
Clery’s closed in June 2015 but the government did nothing change the law to protect workers’ right. Instead in the dying days of this government, the Labour Party is setting up yet another committee to examine a change in company law. People Before Profit representative Gino Kenny said, ‘At the time of the closure the…
Over the weekend CRH announced Irish building materials corporation CRH has become the second major European corporation to exit the Israeli market in the space of a week after it announced it has sold off its 25% equity stake in its Israeli operation Nesher Cement. The boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement has been campaigning for CRH to…
