Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Tesco workers and their supporters who are in the Visitors Gallery. We have heard from other Deputies about a company that makes €250 million profit in this country each year attempting to cut workers' pay by 20% by tearing up agreements. However, this is my question for the Minister. This major multinational retail outlet is organising a wholesale union-busting campaign right under the Minister's nose. Look at what it is doing: it is banning union business from the staff canteens, banning union information from the staff notice boards, banning union officials from going on the premises and encouraging staff to leave the union and now we know it is ending the check off of union subscriptions from workers' wages. This is a classic American-style union-busting campaign. Deputy Collins told the Minister its name: Project Black.

The Minister is responsible for jobs and employment and this is taking place under her nose. When she stands to speak, will she please inform the House and the Tesco workers and their supporters in the Visitors Gallery what she will do to stop and outlaw this union-busting campaign taking place under her very nose?

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