Blockades of Dublin bin depots will recommence within "a matter of days" unless local authorities suspended their policy of not collecting waste from households which have refused to pay the collection charge.
Campaigners from Dublin's four local authority areas including jailed Socialist Party politicians, Ms Clare Daly and Mr Joe Higgins, called on the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) to raise the bin charge issue in scheduled talks with the Government tomorrow.
In an agreed statement, campaigners said bin workers are being put "in the front line of a politically-motivated attack on working class communities".
Mr Higgins said there was "huge anger among rank-and-file trade union activists and trade unionists over ICTU's failure to represent their views".
He also challenged the Minister for Environment, Mr Cullen, to a head-to-head debate in any "media-arranged forum" after the Late Late Showrefused to defer its discussion on the subject last Firday until Mr Higgins had been released from jail.
Mr Cullen appeared on the programme as a guest while anti-bin-charge protesters were controversially only allowed speak form the audience.
Independent socialist TDs, Mr Finian McGrath and Mr Tony Gregory, expressed support for the campaign today and joined in the condemnation of Mr Cullen for what campaigners described as a propaganda campaign.
Mr McGrath rejected the Government and local authorities' argument that the bin charge was an environmental measure. He said funding local government "is the root cause" of the protest.
Mr Cullen and the local authorities were accused of presenting false figures to the public about the level of bin-charge payments that have been made and the claims about the low level of public support for bin charges."Anyone who thinks there's just 150 people orchestrating this needs their head examined," Mr Gregory said.
Meanwhile, eight protesters jailed last week were released from prison today.
Earlier, the High Court granted an injunction to Dún Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council against five people, preventing them from interfering with the bin collections.