Workers Solidarity Movement

Wednesday 9th December saw the greatest budget attack on workers in Ireland in a couple of decades with services and pay being slashed. Many unions and other organisations called protests outside the Dail from the early morning to the late evening. WSM members took part in these protests throughout the day and provided live updates, photos and video from them via our twitter account which you can view or listen to in this article.

A selection of the tweets sent live from the Dail protest, the first is at about 5pm and the run backwards through time till the last which was sent around 1pm. Where they include a URL that URL is a photo, video or audio file. We have embedded some of the video and linked to some of the audio after the tweets

• audio build a trade union from below 2 fight cuts - Grego Kerr INTO http://tmic.fm/oy2xbw2k4y2
• Watching #budget10 in Buswells across from the Dail was wages & services are slashed to bail out proprty developers
• protest - the people who have money INTO protest http://tweetreel.com/?16spf
• audio 'are Teachers unproductive'? speaker at Dail protest http://tmic.fm/oy2xaa6v1z4
• audio they say cut back we say fight back INTO Dail protest http://tmic.fm/oy2xa26lj48
• audio of reasons for INTO protest now starting at Dail http://tmic.fm/oy2x9i3jxpg
• protest outside Dail on video http://tweetreel.com/?m9w2j
• protest placard at Dail richest 1% control 34% wealth
• Number of protesters beginning to build up at Daol ahead of INTO protest
• Grey day for a grey #budget10 that attacks workers and the poor while the rich get bailed out http://tweetreel.com/?ee3q9
• audio - update from outside the Dail http://tmic.fm/oy2x5cenlza
• lunchtime protest over Shell to Sea and some others still at Dail
• rumors of backroom deals with backbenchers abound
• protest people refused to cross road and stood ground at gates of Dail
• protest growing at Dail well over 200 now http://yfrog.com/1ywida
• Joe Higgins denouncing the media and shot of crowd http://tweetreel.com/?wkswx
• s2s in front of Dail http://yfrog.com/32aaoj
• Gardai in front of Dail gates nothing to see here http://yfrog.com/1yez4aj
• No to NAMA ICTU sellout banner http://yfrog.com/auwefd
  audio the banners at the Dail http://tmic.fm/oy2wwypy7f9
  Video of #budget10 protest outside Dail http://tweetreel.com/?jgqbg
  solid line of Gardai at gates http://yfrog.com/1yw8pj
  over 150 protesters at Dail already #budget10 about 23 hours ago from Twitterrific http://twitpic.com/ssboy

Footage of lunchtime Dublin Council of Trade Unions demonstration

Audio: Andrew Flood lists the groups and banners

The INTO demonstration around 4.30pm

Audio: Gregor Kerr explains the reasons for the INTO protest

Audio: Gregor Kerr speaking at the INTO protest about the ICTU negotiations and the need to build a strong trade union movement

The twitter box below shows the most recent updates posted to the WSM twitter feed, you can follow our updates at at http://twitter.com/wsmireland