The Workers Party has flatly rejected claims by the Department of Social Protection that criticism of the JobBridge internship scheme is unfounded. Low paid and exploitation encouraged by JobBridge Dublin North West Workers’ Party representative Jimmy Dignam said that far from being an unbalanced or unfounded representation of the extent of exploitation under [...]
Time to repudiate the McCarthy Report on the sale of State Assets Cllr. Ted Tynan, the Workers’ Party candidate in Cork North Central has said that the massive backlash against water charges and Irish Water had put the outgoing government’s privatisation plans seriously on the back foot but he feared these plans could be revived [...]
Dublin Mid-West candidate Lorraine Hennessy highlights low levels of regulation and high taxpayer subsidies to Irish business High subsidies generate low return in terms of decent jobs, says Hennessy Speaking today (Sunday) the Workers’ Party candidate in Dublin Mid-West, Lorraine Hennessy, said that claims by the business lobby and their political advocates that Irish [...]
Focus should be on job creation not forcing people into low-paid work and internships Restore Under 25s Jobseekers payments to full adult rate Dublin North West Workers’ Party candidate Jimmy Dignam has said governments should focus on the creation of real, sustainable and properly paid jobs instead of the current focus on forcing people into [...]
The loss of more than 1,000 jobs at the Bombardier plant in Belfast has been described by the Workers Party as ‘…a further blow to Northern Ireland’s manufacturing base and evidence, if it was needed, that the Assembly has no viable job creation programme to secure existing jobs and expand the economy’ Bombardier “This announcement comes in the wake [...]
Cork North Central Workers’ Party candidate Cllr. Ted Tynan has said that neither the present government nor Fianna Fail will embark on a major social housing construction programme because the parties in question are still under the thumb of developers. Cllr. Ted Tynan Cllr. Tynan said that a local authority led housing construction [...]
Over 20,000 living in deprivation in Minister Donohoe’s constituency The Workers’ Party candidate in Dublin Central, Cllr Eilis Ryan, today (Sunday) said that Fine Gael’s claims of economic recovery are ringing hollow in Dublin Central, where an estimated 20,000 people are suffering multiple deprivation experiences based on an extrapolation from CSO figures. “Fine Gael’s Minister [...]
Cllr. Éilis Ryan The Workers’ Party has accused Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Joan Burton of having an ideologically driven aversion to creating public sector jobs. Workers’ Party Dublin Councillor Éilis Ryan has said that the launch today of another Jobs Initiative was merely a further throwing of massive sums of money at [...]
The Workers’ Party has dismissed the latest government unemployment figures as coming from “the land of Hocus Pocus” and having little relationship to reality. Workers’ Party spokesman Seamus McDonagh said the figures produced by the Central Statistics Office were based on the most restrictive definition of unemployment possible and did not account for tens of [...]
