Sinn Féin backs An Post workers

SF reps joined a protest by Drogheda postal workers

Sinn Féin is supporting the campaign by An Post workers for their shares in the company. A Transformation Agreement that provided for the establishment of an Employee Share Ownership Plan for postal workers was signed off in July 2000 by the Government, the company and unions.

The workers kept their part of the agreement but, as in the past, the Government has reneged on delivering its part of the deal. The workers are waiting on Minister for Communications Dermot Ahern to bring legislation before the Dáil, which would bring the Employee Share Ownership Plan into existence.

The postal workers in Drogheda held a protest outside the Post Office on Thursday last in advance of a protest outside Leinster House the following day.

Sinn Féin local election candidates Dom Wilton, Matthew Coogan and Imelda Munster attended the Drogheda protest to show their support.

Imelda Munster said "it is ironic that the Government in the past has called for workers to be given shares in the companies they work for as part of incentive schemes and yet the government themselves have reneged on the same plan".

Louth Sinn Féin TD Arthur Morgan is set to raise the issue in the Dáil with Minister for Communications, Dermot Ahern, on behalf of the postal workers.