Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:51:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:51:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Franklin Wayne Poley Subject: Press Release from Mayday, Ireland (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 22:48 +0100 (BST) From: Donald Hounam To: workfare-discuss@icomm.ca Subject: Press Release from Mayday, Ireland I was sent the following press release today: --------------------------------------------- Fighting Unemployment Supporting the Welfare State Press Statement 3/10/1998 A public meeting held by the Mayday organisation, comprising of Unemployed, Trade Union and Community activists was held in Dublin on Thursday 1st October. The well attended meeting was addressed by Mayday's National Spokesperson Joe Barrett a prominent Community and Unemployed activist from Laois, Seamus Carragher, a Wicklow unemployed activist, Paul Johnston representing Scheme Workers, and other Community and Trade Union activists. The main topics of the meeting were Workfare and attacks on the Welfare State. Activities planned for the coming weeks include: A campaign to demand that Local Employment Service and dole office workers throughout the country refuse to allow themselves to be used to coerce unemployed people into low paid work. Mr. Joe Barrett called on "workers in Social welfare and Local Employment Services offices and all those concerned with the plight of the socially excluded to make a stand with the unemployed to defeat Workfare". A picket will also be held on a day over the Halloween period on Bewley's of Grafton Street, to highlight the Bewley's well-heeled owner's disgraceful attack on the most vulnerable section of Irish society. Mr Barrett concluded "Following the success of this meeting it was decided to hold another meeting on 10th October in Dublin, whereby delegates from around the country will gather to continue to devise strategies to defeat Workfare and tackle low pay in employment". ENDS/. Joe Barrett email joeb22@hotmail.com ------------------------------------------------- (For more information on the New Deal in Britain, check out my website at: http://www.compulink.co.uk/~drdoom/politics/newdeal.htm) -> Workfare-Discuss, the list for fighting workfare internationally -> To subscribe, send subscribe workfare-discuss to majordomo@icomm.ca -> List web site, http://www.icomm.ca/workfare/