12 noon, Saturday 27th February 2010 – Meet at Storm Cinema Car Park, Naas

BACKGROUND
The TEEU is in official dispute with Green Isle Foods, Naas since August 2009. This dispute is to have three wrongfully dismissed members reinstated.

• Management at Green Isle still refuses to engage with the TEEU, LRC, NIB, or accept the Labour Court Recommendation that states: The dismissals were unjustified and called for the reinstatement of the dismissed workers.

• This is despite the company having accepted Irish State Aid to the tune of €43,000,000.00

• The ICTU has granted the All-out Picket, while British strike breakers have left the company after being arrested for public disorder offences including serious assault. Irish scabs hired by Green Isle through recruitment agencies have replaced them since.

HUNGER STRIKE
Through insufferable frustration the striking workers have decided to embark on a Hunger Strike. Starting on Wednesday 17th February the Electrical Shop Steward will commence the Hunger Strike outside the plant. He will be joined by another striker one week later, then another and so on, to heighten awareness of their long running dispute and to secure the reinstatement of there wrongly dismissed colleagues.

NATIONAL RALLY & DAY OF PROTEST – 27 February 2010

Tues 16th Feb 6-7.30PM at Shell HQ, 52 Lower Lesson St.
All Welcome, bring banners, fellow activists etc

The Eastern Region Network of CDP's are staging a protest outside the Dail this Wednesday morning 3rd February at 11.am in solidarity with the CDP's that have been told their appeals have been rejected.

Also to continue to campaign for CDP's to retain their local management boards and Ltd Company status.

All support would be welcome!

Issue One of People Before Profit Alliance Newsletter is now available. Download below

People Before Profit Fundraiser

Help Us Build the Fightback!

Clifton Court Hotel, Dublin 1

Friday 5th February

8pm til late

Live Music-Raffle-Craic

***Admission ONLY 5 Euro***

Please support!

The gun attack on Raymond Coyle at his work place on Wednesday is a heinous crime that can have no justification what so ever. Vigilante attacks serve no purpose and those who carry them out do not have the backing of the community they claim to represent.

People Before Profit demand that the organisation responsible for shooting Mr.Coyle admits responsibility for their actions and gives their reasons for this attack. We ask who are these people who claim to defend us? Under who's authority do they attack and how do they believe these attacks benefit anyone within the community? We demand that all paramilitary organisations lift any existing threats against those they perceive to be guilty of crimes relating to drugs or any other 'anti social behaviour.'

Derry has some of the poorest working class communities in these Islands. In the poorest communities there are definite problems with alcohol and other substance abuse. The social alienation and stigma of poverty, unemployment and poor housing contribute greatly to misuse of drugs and alcohol. People Before Profit believe that the vigilantes who carry out punishment attacks only bring more stigma and fear to the poorest communities. These groups who claim a mandate from the people, offer nothing constructive in tackling the poverty and helplessness that many working class people feel.

This is why People Before Profit are proud to support Friday's demonstration against so called 'punishment,' attacks. We want to play a part in giving people confidence to say clearly to the paramilitary groups that their actions are, ' Not in Our Name.' We want to send a clear message that these attacks have to stop now.

For more info contact Davy on 07521527208

A new pressure group will hold a public meeting in Tralee to launch a broad campaign against the various cuts proposed by the Fianna Fail/Green government. The Kerry Campaign Against Cuts will meet at the Grand Hotel Tralee, on Thursday 11th February at 8PM.

Three organisations are taking part so far, and speakers include: Margaret O'Shea, from the Kerry Network of People with Disabilities, expressing some of the concerns of the Community Development Projects, Simon Quinn, from the newly formed Kerry Public Sector Workers Alliance, and Dublin Councillor Brid Smith, from People Before Profit, who has been very active in anti-cuts actions and demonstrations.

The Kerry Network of People With Disabilities has for more than a decade campaigned for the rights for people with disabilities. It organised a well-attended demonstration in Tralee in August 2009, where speaker Margaret O'Shea called the event "just the start" of the campaign by the Community Development sector. She also said, "We say No to cuts to social welfare, Rural Transport, Community and Voluntary sector supports, RAPID, Community Services Programme, closure of rural garda stations Education for young people with disabilities, minimum. These cuts will have a strong anti rural bias and we won’t take them"