SIPTU has accused employers in the construction sector of engaging in similar activities to those that have caused huge controversy at Irish Ferries.

SIPTU is to mount a name and shame campaign against companies which continue to exploit national and non-national workers, delegates voted yesterday.

Pre-established pay rates for workers in the construction industry have been lodged with the Labour Court in Dublin.

MINISTER for Overseas Development Conor Lenihan is this morning under pressure to meet Gama workers to personally apologise for calling them “kebabs” in the Dáil yesterday.

SIPTU officials are due to meet Minister for Social Affairs Seamus Brennan today to discuss the situation surrounding pensions in the construction sector.

CONSTRUCTION workers will today march on the offices of Social and Family Affairs Minister Seamus Brennan demanding an end to widespread non-compliance with the industry pension scheme.

PROTESTING Turkish workers at Gama yesterday called for the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) to withdraw the firm’s electricity generation licence until workers are fully paid.

THE company at the centre of a labour scandal at Dublin's Port Tunnel is not complying with labour laws two months after the Irish Examiner revealed Polish staff were being paid half that of Irish workers.

The troubled Gama construction firm tonight agreed to hand over foreign bank account details as part of a probe into alleged underpayment of hundreds of its Turkish workers.

HUNDREDS of Gama workers in Dublin yesterday refused to return to work as SIPTU demanded the Government step in to prevent the threatened repatriation of Turkish employees.

A showdown meeting is planned tomorrow between bosses at the Gama construction firm and its Turkish workers and SIPTU officials.

HUNDREDS of angry Gama workers are today planning to target the company’s largest construction project, a Galway power station being built for the ESB in Tynagh.

HUNDREDS of angry Gama workers are today planning to target the company’s largest construction project, a Galway power station being built for the ESB in Tynagh.

THE company at the heart of a migrant labour scandal at Dublin’s Port Tunnel was yesterday accused of intimidating Polish workers in an attempt to track down the sources of an Irish Examiner investigation into abuses of labour law.

THE country’s largest single pension scheme is to be reviewed by the Pensions Board following concerns that thousands of construction firms are flouting the law, depriving workers of death and sickness benefits.

Around 1,200 construction workers in Dublin were due to return to their jobs this morning after they took unofficial industrial action yesterday.

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HUNDREDS of angry building workers are expected to march on Government buildings today in protest at construction companies which are failing to pay pension contributions for their workers.

BUILDERS' labourers, angry at a multi-million euro construction industry fraud, yesterday demanded that the Government investigate and jail those responsible.

Failure to act on pension fund fraud in the construction industry will lead to industrial action, SIPTU warned today.

SIPTU are to hold a protest today to vent their anger over the widespread fraud and non-compliance that is taking place throughout the building industry.

BUILDERS angered at a multi-million euro pension fraud will picket the Department of Justice on Monday and demand that those responsible are jailed.

A campaign against domestic refuse charges received the support of the Dublin Council of Trade Unions (DCTU) at a meeting in Dublin last night.

ROUGE builders are still willing to risk the lives of employees on a daily basis, members of SIPTU’s construction branch told their biannual conference yesterday.

MORE people will be killed in workplace accidents because of cutbacks in safety funding.

WORKERS are desperately looking to the trade union movement to sort out the housing crisis, a SIPTU official claimed yesterday.

Hundreds of construction workers have marched through central Dublin to protest at poor safety standards on building sites.

Construction workers are taking to the streets of Dublin later today to protest at falling safety standards in the industry.

Builders are to hold a one-day stoppage on Wednesday of next week over falling safety standards on sites.

THE country's largest union has condemned many building sites as time bombs following random inspections by officials in recent days.

Workers on building sites are planning a one-day stoppage in January over safety conditions.

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.