Thursday, 9 February 2012

CE Participant Meeting & Welfare Cuts Protest


CE Worker Meeting

In budget 2012, the Government introduced a number of savage cuts to lone parents, including cuts to the OPFA for lone parents on Community Employment (for full details of the cuts please see DSP Note on CE Payments)

To organise against these cuts CE workers are invited to a meeting on:

Tuesday 14th February
2pm
Liberty Hall, Eden Quay


Protests Against Lone Parent Cuts

As part of the campaign to resist cuts SIPTU is working with the SPARK Campaign (www.sparkcampaign.com). A protest is being held to campaign against the severe cuts that were inflicted on lone parents in the recent budget, including with withdrawal of the OPFA payment for lone parents entering CE schemes and the reduction in qualifying age from 14 to 7.

Saturday 18th February
2pm
Garden of Remembrance,
Parnell Square

For more information, please contact

Paul Hansard, SIPTU Organisers
T: (01) 8586364
M: 087 7266022 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            087 7266022      end_of_the_skype_highlighting

Shonagh Byrne, SIPTU Organisers
T: 01- 8586381
M: 087 7454581 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            087 7454581      end_of_the_skype_highlighting

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