Striking Uncertainty

A hot topic around the Department for the last few days has been whether or not we’re all going to be on strike on Thursday 12th November. Since the suspension of the strike planned for 21st October, negotiations between the public sector unions aand government officials got going and then stopped and a new strike day was called, initially for 11th November, then changed to 12th November (i.e. this Thursday). Instead of the pickets at individual workplaces as on 14th October, the plan for 12th November was a number of rallies as seen on the map above. The route for the Dublin march is shown on the left here. The complication for Dublin is that there are two EU summits taking place this week thanks to it being Ireland’s turn at the EU presidency, so a big area of the city is cordoned off. We have received instructions on where to gather at the start – our marching orders, so to speak – and I’m planning to go into Dublin by train in the morning as other public transport is heavily…

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