The General Secretary of the Technical Engineering & Electrical Union (TEEU) has said the organisation will be campaigning and protesting vigorously to ensure a referendum on the ownership of Irish Water comes about.
At a Right2Water news conference in Dublin this morning, Eamon Devoy said there was concern that calls for that referendum appeared to be falling on deaf ears.
The TEEU today became the sixth trade Union to join the Right2Water campaign.
Right2Water says it is expecting tens of thousands of people to attend a national demonstration in Dublin on Saturday.
It is the fifth national demonstration organised by Right2Water.
Trade Union representatives say their demand for the abolition of water charges is only the first step of a campaign for change in a number of areas of Irish society
The Right2Water Trade Unions issued a draft set of policy principles for public consultation in May of this year.
Co-ordinator and Unite official Brendan Ogle said they would be holding town hall meetings around the country to see if there is buy-in for these principles.
Mr Ogle was asked whether he intended to run in the next General Election, he said he had not given it any consideration.
However, Mr Ogle said Right2Water was not saying that people involved in the campaign would never run.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the Right2Water campaign has said the group has never given any instruction to people in relation to the claiming of the €100 water conservation grant, or the payment of water charges.
The spokesperson said Right2Water campaigned for the abolition of water charges.
However, the spokesperson said the campaign believed people could make up their own minds and was not instructing them as to the payment of charges and claiming of the grant.
