PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT SOCIALISM FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Gino
Clondalkin
NEWSLETTER
Kenny TD 085 721 1574
gino.kenny @oireachtas.ie
Gino Kenny TD
@GinoSocialist
SPRING 2022
WORKERS NEED A PAY RISE We are facing a tsunami of price rises. Inflation is at its highest level since the 1980s. It could reach as high as 8.5%. The average household will be losing over €2,000. ● There have been multiple electricity and gas price increases: Bord Gáis recently raised electricity bills by an average of 27% and gas bills by 39%. ● The government refuses to take any action to curb these price increases and control the profits of energy companies. Last year, Energia, which increased prices three times, made an additional €24 million. ESB profits increased by € 63 million.
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● Prices will go up again in May when the government adds the Carbon Tax to household fuels and electricity.
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● Rents went up by 10% in 2021 and transport costs by 15%. Clothes prices went up by almost 7% in February alone. Food prices are also rising. Despite the claims of politicians and economists, it is now accepted that inflation will remain high next year and will at a minimum be 5%.
PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT IS CALLING FOR:
build a stronger voice for workers across Ireland. We want to ycle of Fianna Fail
● Use price control legislation to place a cap on energy prices: no more increases for workers. ● Defer the Carbon Tax ● Free Public Transport
is now the largest ecosocialist party in Ireland and we are ● Abolish College Fees growing every day.
● A rent freeze and rent reductions We are also calling forovernment an Increasewithout in all welfare Fianna Fail payments and a Living Wage of €15 an hour. We People support or Fine Gael today is the day to get involved and join the call to reform and extend the fuel allowance and establish a discretionary fund to help those in hardship. Together weforcan a calling strongfor eco-socialist fora workers To pay thisbuild we are a millionaire’svoice tax and windfall from tax Palmerstown, Clondalkin, Lucan and Tallaght - across the on energy companies. island.
However, the best way workers can protect themselves from inflation is to fight for real pay increases. to the JustDue to stand still, Lev workers’ pay needs to increase by a minimum Lucan Swimming Pool has been halted last few of 7%. In some companies increases in the orderfor of 2the to 2.5% months. are being reported. In the public sector workers are getting 1%. But this means the value of your wages is being effectively cut.
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Some getting more because have hoped. Once beworkers able toare open in the summer asthey originally campaigned for more. Across the six counties, a strike wave is open, however, the pool will pro pushing for real wage increases. We must follow this example. A victory will set a headline for others to follow. on for forsome decades Get your union to lodge a pay claim of at least 10% or a flat rate equivalent.