You are failing to recognise the fact that people don't/didn't and wont march under a union banner that has many a dark cloud over it.They were sending a message!
Soon there will be a march against those at the helm..OF THE UNIONS!!
The people will make their feelings known at the ballot box,and once again I will say the message is loud and very clear,people are fed up with how the government is/has been run,but had the good grace not to march with a vested interest,if it had been a non vested interest it would have been much more successful.
No thedaras -
you are missing the point! I would be considered quite anti union but this was an opportunity for people to stand up and 50,000 orr more took that opportunity. The fact that the ICTU actually organised it provided an outlet for people to let govt. see the anger manifest itself.
I was alsoo at the demonstration outside the Green Party convention to protest against the NAMA decision - we hadn't even got enough for a football team at that
and that was a decision which could cost tens if not hundreds of billions -
more apathy
For people who say these marches don't achieve anything - look at the leadership shown by our senior citizens in the church just a couple of years ago on the issue of medical cards.