A Chara, - It is disappointing, but hardly surprising, that with the prospect of a recession the lowest paid are the first to be targeted by business leaders, rather than those who have benefited massively from the past 15 years.
It wasn't low-paid workers, but short-sighted politicians and wealthy property and financial speculators who squandered the wealth that workers' unprecedented increase in productivity has generated.
The Small Firms Association's call for a cut in the minimum wage is reminiscent of 1987, when our then leader demanded that ordinary people tighten their belts while he was loosening his to tuck in his Charvet shirt. - Is mise,
RAY CORCORAN, Ballymun, Dublin 11.