TEEU welcomes unanimous decision of Irish Congress of Trade Unions members to ballot members for all-out picket July 7th, 2009. The Technical Engineering and Electrical Union has welcomed the support it received this evening from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions when all the affiliates likely to be affected by the application of an all-out picket agreed unanimously to recommend support in ballots of their members. TEEU General Secretary Owen Wills said, "Our pickets have already made an enormous impact on the electrical contracting and construction sectors and this will be multiplied many times over once the all-out pickets are put in place. Workers have not been fooled by the media campaign of the employer organisations. They realise that if those employers succeed in imposing cuts on us now, they will be next in line". "There can be no question of our members, or other workers, accepting the proposition that when times are good the employers can engage in a profits binge and, having squandered the wealth can turn around and tell workers to foot the bill when times are bad". "This decision by our fellow trade unionists in the ICTU means workers are no longer willing to be the fall guys for everyone else."