Europe - Why the Irish said No
WORKERS, NOVEMBER 2008 ISSUE
Jack O’Connor is the president of Ireland’s largest union Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union – which represents over 200,000 Irish workers. He told his union’s regional conference in Tralee at the start of October that people rejected the Lisbon Treaty because of an erosion of workplace rights and that new workers from EU accession states have “dragged down” wages.