Fingal councillors in north Dublin have called on the Government to rescind the public sector pension levy.
Elected representatives of Fingal County Council voted by 10 to three for a motion that referred to the levy as "a one-sided attempt to make public sector workers pay for an economic crisis that is not of their creation".
Labour, Fine Gael, Socialist Party and independent councillors voted for the motion. One Green Party councillor, Joe Corr, also voted for the motion, which was put by Socialist Party councillor Clare Daly.
The motion also stated that the pension measure was "anti-worker and will be detrimental to the economy". The councillors demanded the "immediate withdrawal" of the levy.
Earlier more than 500 members of the trade union Siptu who work for Final County Council marched through the centre of Swords, where the council's headquarters is located, to protest at the impact of the pension levy on their earnings.
Branch organiser Ramon O’Reilly said those in grades such as general operatives, drivers, waste collectors and park rangers had pension entitlements that were "miserly to say the least".
"But they will suffer disproportionally from this pay cut. A person in those grades earning €610 per week will receive a pension of €122 after 40 years service. A person on €610 per week with 20 years service will receive €61 per week.
“In fact people earning €610 per week with 14 years service or less will now receive a pension of €40 per week which is less than their €41 per week pension contribution, which now includes the so called levy. The situation is even worse for temporary staff. Countrywide tens of thousands of our members are in this situation.”
Mr O'Reilly called on councillors to support the Irish Congress of Trade Unions’ stabilisation plan as the basis for any economic recovery strategy.