Support the QUB Creche workers on strike – MacCoitir
Lasair Dhearg joined the QUB creche workers, fellow trade unionists and other political activists on the picket line today outside Queen’s University, Belfast
Speaking from the gathered crowd, Pádraic MacCoitir, Lasair Dhearg spokesperson, said, “Since March this year creche workers have taken industrial action in pursuit of protection of their employment terms and conditions.”
“I spoke with a number of the workers today and I am very impressed with how determined they are. They will continue to hold pickets at the main gate of the university; where just last year Lasair Dhearg activists erected a banner on the gate renaming it in honour of IRA Volunteer Mairéad Farrell.”
“As the strikers are calling for more people to support them, it is worth remembering that this University had been the seat of unionism and the privileged few who looked down their noses on the working classes for generations. However, from the 1960s when further education was opened to more people many radicals took on the the establishment both inside the university and the political elite. This continues through to today despite the great and the good trying to stamp out any form of radicalism.”
“Lasair Dhearg will continue to support those on strike as they fight for their just demands.”
