The youth wing of the country’s largest public service union Forsa was set up in May 2018 to tackle important issues like new entrants pay, the housing crisis and precarious working conditions. Six months later that incarnation of the youth movement was shut down with immediate effect. Senior general secretary of the union Shay Cody cited “interpersonal conflicts”. That was not the end of the matter. In December 2018, the secretary of Forsa Youth Network Yvette Kelly, a civil servant at the Department of Justice, wrote a letter of complaint to the union head office about her dealings with the…

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