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Title: Competition or con Author: Workers Solidarity Movement Date: 1995 Language: en Topics: Ireland, competition, Workers Solidarity Source: Retrieved on 24th November 2021 from http://struggle.ws/ws95/comp44.html Notes: Published in Workers Solidarity No. 44 — Spring 1995.
IRELAND IS THE 19^(th) most competitive country in the world. This was
the finding released in September by the Geneva based World Economic
Forum. Yet workers in TEAM, Irish Steel, the ESB, and a lot more jobs
are told that they must accept lower pay and/or worse conditions in
order to “become competitive”.
The ten most competive countries were listed as
While it is undeniable that low wages are one factor in attracting
multinational investment, there are other factors. Why are we always
told that we must be like Singapore or Hong Kong but not like Germany or
Sweden? Why must bosses be given more as an “incentive to invest” but
workers given less an “incentive to work”? And there are those who think
we live in a classless society!