Mary Lou McDonald MEP to host delegation of workers’ rights campaigners at European Parliament

20 June, 2006

Mary Lou McDonald MEP to host delegation of workers’ rights campaigners at European Parliament

 

MEP for Dublin and Sinn Féin National Chairperson Mary Lou McDonald will tomorrow host a delegation of trade union activists and workers’ rights campaigners at the European Parliament in Brussels.

 

The delegation comprising of activists from across Ireland, will travel to Brussels this evening (Tuesday 20th June) before embarking on an intensive round of meetings tomorrow, including meetings with Irish and Trade Union Intergroup MEPs on Occupational Health and Safety and Corporate Manslaughter, the EUs Employment and Social Affairs Committee and European Commission Officials to discuss Health/Safety issues and working conditions.  

 

Note to Editor:

 

Representatives from UCATT, MANDATE,  SIPTU, Belfast Trades Council and the IWU will be joined by Sinn Féin Councillors and representatives including Jonathan O’Brien (Cork) and Killian Forde (Dublin) and Martin Meehan (South Antrim).

 

Also travelling will be representatives from the Justice for Justin Foley Campaign, who was a young Dublin man who died in an industrial accident in 2002.