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    18 January 2012

    EU ‘Austerity’ Deal won’t work – Irish Workers face a grim Future

    Frank Connolly
    The EU summit on Friday 9 December, during which 26 out of 27 member countries agreed on a new intergovernmental treaty including a “fiscal compact” to enforce budgetary discipline on states which breach the 3% deficit (of GDP) limit, will not provide the growth strategy that is necessary to help deeply indebted euro zone countries out of recession.
    The fiscal compact proposals will not solve the problems of the euro for the peoples of Europe but will instead “institutionalise austerity” by enforcing an annual structural deficit that does not exceed 0.5% of GDP. A strategy for growth and for a rapid job generating recovery is completely missing. Without such a strategy there is no relief in sight for the stressed countries.
    Nor did this summit, dominated by German and French political and financial considerations, include any suggestion of debt restructuring, or euro bonds or any kind of fiscal transfer mechanism to direct resources from prosperous regions to

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    10 January 2012

    Global Labour Online Campaigns: The next 10 Years

    Eric Lee
    In November 2011, the military dictatorship in Fiji jailed two of the country’s most prominent trade union leaders. Following the launch of an online campaign sponsored by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and run on the LabourStart website, some 4,000 messages of protest were sent in less than 24 hours. The government relented, the union leaders were freed, and the campaign suspended. A month earlier, Suzuki workers locked out in India waged a successful online campaign through the International Metalworkers Federation (IMF) and LabourStart. Almost 7,000 messages flooded the company’s inboxes, and after only a few days, a compromise was reached.

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