| Author (Person) | Brown, John Murray |
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| Series Title | Financial Times |
| Series Details | 23.2.09 |
| Publication Date | 23/02/2009 |
| Content Type | News |
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Article reports that the Irish government faced growing calls, February 2009 to abandon the centrepiece of its economic recovery plan after large-scale public protests organised by the main trade unions. A controversial proposal to impose a levy on the pensions of public servants – effectively a pay cut for the 350,000 state employees from ministers to local authority workers – drew 100,000 ordinary people on to the Dublin streets on the 21 February 2009 in a protest organised by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. |
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| Countries / Regions | Ireland |
