Low paid private sector workers must ready themselves a fight to defend living standards
Union leadership must rise to the challenge of attack on workers' right and conditions.
Opening a press conference Cllr. Richard Boyd Barrett, People Before Profit and United Left Alliance candidate for Dun Laoghaire commented: "Yesterday we saw the ridiculous spectacle of some of the highest paid people in this country lecturing the lowest paid about how they have to accept another pay cut on top of the Universal Social Charge, changes to the tax bands, reduction in Child Benefit.

The new national minimum wage rate will come into effect on 1 February following the signing of the order today (Wednesday) by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O’Keeffe TD. The order sets the new rate at €7.65 per hour.