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Article: Workers in public sector on 'war footing' over pay cuts

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September 29, 2009
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ANGRY PUBLIC service workers working in "frontline" services as nurses, gardai, soldiers and fire fighters warned the Government last night that they were on "a war footing" in the fight against further pay cuts.

The anger among public service workers was evident when an estimated 1,500 members of the recently formed Frontline Services Alliance attended a meeting in Sligo to hear their representatives warn that public-service workers would not become scapegoats for the "failures of bankers, regulators and the Department of Finance".

The organisers of the first of a series of regional meetings had expected a crowd of about 400 but hundreds of workers were forced to stand outside the packed ...

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