Maxalt drew attention in his post of April 1st to the plight of non-unionised workers in Ireland. In particular he mentioned Turkish building workers. Those of you who aren't based in Ireland might be interested in the latest on the issue...it is illustrative of how non-unionised workers will be treated in extremis.
All hell has broken loose in the media here. It has emerged that these workers have had a total of thirty (30) million euro with-held from them and lodged in a Dutch bank account which they can't access. The workers are currently on strike, and (as one supporter at their protest outside the Irish parliament today noted) they didn't even have the bus money to get to the rally!
The buiding project these guys were working on was (get this) a government road project, and the coalition government minority party (the 'Progressive Democrats') had long sung the praises of how great the Turkish workers were, and how great the Turkish company was, and how market forces were exposing the weakness of the lazy/overpaid Irish workforce! This came in the same week as a report that shows Irish workers are working longer hours on average than ANY other european population.
The naked greed of the modern Capitalist system is being laid bare for all to see in this lovely little country - this is what O'Leary stands for. Exploitation.
As Sunfish points out, the ultimate destination of this race to the bottom, led by the grasping avarice of Big Business, is the enslavement and impoverishment of working people.
All those who bash unions and aid this project are satans little helpers.