Or to put it another way, we might as well just say it out straight - if the bosses, government and most union leaders stay united they can easily pick us off one by one without too much hassle. It's not about 'special cases'. Social partnership' is meant to obscure this, and convince us that we share a common interest with our employers. It is a political strategy to strengthen the idea that the way society is presently run is the only option, that there is no alternative. It is not only bosses and politicians who push this propaganda.
Most union leaders are just as energetic in selling' partnership'.
The determination of some of our union leaders to save PPF is aptly demonstrated by the INTO and TUI leaders who urged their members not to support their colleagues in ASTI but instead put their faith in the proposed 'benchmarking' procedure. Four bosses and two ex-trade union bureaucrats. And don't we all remember the bonuses given to Eircom directors after they made a dog's dinner of the company's floatation on the stock exchange. Holding down pay increases is the central part of PPF, yet even in their own union the membership have been getting wage increases well over the limit. This page is from the print version of the Irish Anarchist paper ' Workers Solidarity '.