Motion no: 33
That this Conference views the recent government moves to privatise both Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann, as a betrayal of the employees and the Irish public. Privatising 10% of Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann routes would severely damage the companies ability to continue to provide a nationwide public transport system. Some affiliates have experienced the privatization of public transport in its raw form, from the Thatcher years right through to the present day. That experience has demonstrated not only the destruction of public transport, but the sheer greed for profits, which are the main driving force for privatization and not as the Government are suggesting for the betterment of the public and state. Conference demands an emergency meeting with the junior partners of Government to express their abhorrence and disappointment that they are supporting the privatisation of public transport and to call on their leader to issue a statement condemning the privatisation of Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann. Conference believes that public transport should remain in public ownership, provided for in the most efficient manner so that it delivers environmental sustainability, social cohesion and economic benefits for all citizens and commits the ICTU to campaign around this policy. Adopted
Transport Salaried Staffs Association
