Boycott water bill letter plea.ANTI-water rates campaigners are sending letters to every home here calling of people not to pay the bills. The Irish Congress of Trade Unions The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), formed in 1959 by the merger of the Irish Trade Union Congress (founded in 1894) and the Congress of Irish Unions (founded in 1945), is a national trade union centre, the umbrella organisation to which trade unions in both the Republic of are urging people to boycott the charge, due to come into force next April. Union chiefs came up with the boycott plan after receiving complaints from members of the public angered at plans to privatise Verb 1. privatise - change from governmental to private control or ownership; "The oil industry was privatized" privatize manufacture, industry - the organized action of making of goods and services for sale; "American industry is making increased use of the supply of drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. . Patrick Mulholland from the We Won't Pay campaign welcomed the trade union initiative. He said: "These charges represent a double taxation as people already pay for their water through their rates." A High Court decision on whether the plans to introduce charges are legal is expected to be delivered next week. |
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