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Thomas Cooke workers show the way - Don’t be bullied by state or bosses
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Sunday August 09, 2009 13:47 by Gregor Kerr - 1st May Branch Workers Solidarity Movement - personal capacity
When a force of 80 – 100 gardai arrived at the Thomas Cooke office in Grafton Street Dublin at 5a.m. on Tuesday 4th August, smashed the door down, and dragged 28 protesting workers off to the Bridewell Garda Station, the Irish state was attempting to deliver a strong message to all workers.
Related Links: Throughout the bank holiday weekend, there had been a tremendous outpouring of public support for the workers’ occupation from the general public. (see http://www.wsm.ie/internal_article/5861 for the background to the occupation). The state could not afford to allow this struggle to become a focal point for growing anger with the manner in which ordinary people are being made to pay for the financial crisis caused by wealthy bankers and property developers.
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Which was was it- nearer 80 or nearer 100? That's quite a big difference.
And what happened to the 150 garda which were quoted on Tuesday morningon this website? 150 is nearly DOUBLE the lower figure quoted here.
So where did the other 70 guards go? Maybe we will be reading about 50 garda in a few days, then 30, then numbers will stop being mentioned at all, and the emphasis will be on protesters being "dragged off". Was anyone actually dragged out of Thomas Cooke's offices?
I'd love to be able to give you exact figures but the Gardaí refuse to give operational numbers at protests.
A quick count from Trinity College put at least 65 Gardaí on foot on the street, with up to 2 dozen more inside the building. That doesn't include van drivers or Gardaí out of sight, blockading side streets of which only a handful where visible from where I was standing. Unfortunately, some of us had more important things to be doing than running around with a pen and paper getting an exact number.
Shows what side your on.... moaning about cop numbers and not the people who lost their jobs, or how they were treated by their employers, the police, or the press.
If this were a functioning democracy, Thomas Cook would be in court.