Migrant
Rights Centre Ireland
News
Release
9
June 2010
Low
Wage Restaurant Workers Protest Wage Attacks at Restaurant Association of
Ireland’s Gala Dinner.
Visuals
to include: Workers in chef uniforms leafleting restaurant owners and
industry leaders in black-tie dress.
Wednesday, 9 June
Start: 6pm. End: 7:30pm
Burlington Hotel, Upper Leeson St, Dublin
The
Restaurant Workers Action Group, established by the Migrant Rights Centre
Ireland, is staging a protest on Wednesday, 9 June at the Restaurant
Association of Ireland’s sold-out black tie gala awards dinner at the
Burlington Hotel. The Restaurant Association of Ireland is calling for a
reduction in the national minimum wage and an abolition of the Joint Labour
Committee (JLC), the system that establishes wages and working conditions for
catering and other industries.
The Restaurant Association of Ireland is
lobbying the government to cut wages for some of the lowest-paid workers in
the country. If successful, the attacks it is urging would reduce wages by
about 20% - a huge blow for workers earning less than €20,000 per year. Many
restaurant workers have had their income cut further because their hours have
been reduced. All workers have already seen their wages cut through measures
like the pension levy. “It is nothing less than shameful to attack the wages
of those who are struggling the most,â€
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