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28/04/2009
City Council Condemn Worker Threats
Politicians have united with unions and workers to condemn the intimidation of Belfast council employees by dissident republicans.
The reaction follows several threats to the council's workforce, including the delivery of a bullet to a worker at a cleansing depot in the loyalist Shankill Road area of west Belfast.
Sinn Féin Lord Mayor Tom Hartley and Ulster Unionist Deputy Lord Mayor David Browne said that the council and the trade unions - including Unite, SIPTU, GMB and NI PSA – "reject the scourge of sectarianism and reaffirm opposition to all intimidation of whatever nature".
Two Belfast City Council trade union co-ordinators, Jim Parker and Tim Smith said every employee "has the right to go about their business and provide services to the people who live and visit Belfast, free from intimidation".
The Police Service of Northern Ireland said yesterday: "We do not discuss the security of individuals.
"However, if police are made aware of a threat to an individual's safety, steps are taken to inform them immediately. We never ignore anything which would put an individual's life at risk."
The statements came on the same day as the Chairman of the NI Policing Board condemned a weekend attack on the home of a Board Member, Daithí McKay.
Professor Sir Desmond Rea said: "Those who attack or threaten public representatives who have been elected by and for their communities have nothing to offer society and such attacks and threats achieve nothing
(AC/BMcC)
The reaction follows several threats to the council's workforce, including the delivery of a bullet to a worker at a cleansing depot in the loyalist Shankill Road area of west Belfast.
Sinn Féin Lord Mayor Tom Hartley and Ulster Unionist Deputy Lord Mayor David Browne said that the council and the trade unions - including Unite, SIPTU, GMB and NI PSA – "reject the scourge of sectarianism and reaffirm opposition to all intimidation of whatever nature".
Two Belfast City Council trade union co-ordinators, Jim Parker and Tim Smith said every employee "has the right to go about their business and provide services to the people who live and visit Belfast, free from intimidation".
The Police Service of Northern Ireland said yesterday: "We do not discuss the security of individuals.
"However, if police are made aware of a threat to an individual's safety, steps are taken to inform them immediately. We never ignore anything which would put an individual's life at risk."
The statements came on the same day as the Chairman of the NI Policing Board condemned a weekend attack on the home of a Board Member, Daithí McKay.
Professor Sir Desmond Rea said: "Those who attack or threaten public representatives who have been elected by and for their communities have nothing to offer society and such attacks and threats achieve nothing
(AC/BMcC)
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