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They probably do but an Italian company probably has Italian people on it’s books, they cant be expected to sack some to make way for British workers and the rules are you can work where you want EU wise
they dont employ the best , they employ the cheapest , british standards are known to be the best in genral , our unions fought for yrs to get us a pay deal and better terms on all blue book sites , now they come and wrk for less pay and worse terms , my solution would be to make them get same wages and terms , maybe then they wouldnt be shipped over and occomadation provided so readily , or cant local councils demand certain terms when contracts are awarded , ie local labour must be exhausted first , or is that breaching eu laws
As I understand it, and cutting through all the Media hype … this was a sub-contract and was for construction work at the power station – nothing to do with the actual operation of the power station itself.
Also, it appears that an un-named BRITISH construction / building subcontractor initially held the contract and (typically some might think) failed to perform their contract satisfactorily. as a result of their breach of their contract terms, they were dismissed from the contract.
As a result of this, the “employer” went out to a tendering process to seek another sub-contractor that COULD fulfil the contract within the price and time quoted. ANY organisation in the whole of Eurpoe could tender (and may well have done) BUT the best tender was submitted by an Italian construction company.
Within the various EU directives (to which we have signed up) the successful Italian firm is perfectly entitled to employ their own labour force, provided that they offer the same terms as those that would have been offered to locally employed labour.
I really can’t see what the bloody trade unions are bleating about. Local labour WAS originally hired and subsequently fired. They had their chance and blew it. Now it is up to another company, with their own in-house labour force, to prove that they CAN operate this contract.
i think ppl might rethink if it was there industry that was being hit , the crucial element in the main was not that they where employing italian workers but that they wouldnt be part of the national agrrememnt (NAECCI) that we fought for years for , why ? because under EU directives , backed up by the EU court of human rights say this would be seen as a restraint against the freedom of movement of labour .so therefore , the pay deal we worked so hard to be put in place can now be undercut by foreighn workers at minumum wage , since the strike what the workers achieved was 102 out of 198 jobs for british and ALL WORKERS IN UK TO BE COVERED BY NAECI AGREEMENT AND ALL IMMIGRANT LABOUR TO BE UNIONISED , this may take time to imliment nationally , but when it does and we are on a level playing field , will british workers be snubbed for foreign like it has been ? i think not
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