The Building and Allied Trades Union has called for tighter regulations governing employment on construction sites in an effort to improve safety for workers.

IN common with other developed economies, Ireland has seen the movement of transnational capital across the globe.

MIGRANT workers are being forced to live in Third World-type ‘work camps’ on construction sites, a builders’ union claimed yesterday.

INCREASED safety measures on building sites have been demanded by trade unions after accidents claimed the lives of three construction workers in one week, bringing the total number of construction deaths this year to 20.

SIPTU has stepped up demands for increased safety measures on building sites today following the deaths of three construction workers this week.

A FATAL accident yesterday evening on a construction site, the third this week, has rocked the industry.

A man in his 50s has died from injuries sustained in a fall on a construction site in Dublin’s Docklands.