We responded here to the disgraceful piece in Friday’s Irish Times on Michael Buckley, Executive Director of Greyhound Waste which has locked out its workers for over a month because they wouldnt accept a 30%+ pay cut. This morning wed recommend you take a few minutes to read the linked Critical Media Review blog that does a good job of looking at how that article was framed to make it so sympathetic to Buckley, Some extracts to encourage you to click through below Greyhound is in the news as they are currently locking out their workforce, demanding that they take a 35% pay cut. Elements of the media, true to form, are uncritically reporting statements from the company with little evidence of fact-checking and displaying all the usual fawning reserved for business leaders. Friday’s 2,500 word interview includes no counter statements from SIPTU (the union involved) and takes Buckley’s word on every aspect. .. The most incredible piece of writing is that the private waste companies represent an ‘entrepreneurial, innovative sector’ – how is this so? By taking over an already existing, well-run service and operating it in a haphazard and amateurish manner? By doing down the pay and conditions of its staff? By its numerous notices of repeat non-compliance by the Environmental Protection Agency or by their not-so-innovative use of the Isle of Man to escape financial regulation? --- Do read the full blog at criticalmediareview.wordpress/2014/07/20/balance-in-the-bin-the-irish-times-framing-of-the-greyhound-lockout/
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 11:07:58 +0000
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