ELECTRICAL supplies could be severely affected by as early as this afternoon after the Technical, Engineering and Electrical Union (TEEU) yesterday served strike notice with immediate effect on one of the ESB’s largest plants.

UP TO 200 Polish workers at one of the ESB’s main power stations, Moneypoint, last night voted in favour of industrial action claiming they have not been paid since the beginning of September and now face the prospect of losing their jobs.

Workers at a power station in Co Clare tonight called off a day of protest after a sacked Polish shop steward and other union activists were re-employed at the Moneypoint plant.

ESB workers at the Moneypoint power plant in Co Clare have decided to stage a public demonstration tomorrow morning in support of a number of sacked Polish workers.

WITH thousands of Irish workers losing their jobs as international firms relocate to the sweatshop economies of Asia, the pay and conditions of employees in Ireland are also at risk of being eroded by the shameful exploitation of immigrant workers.

A Polish company which was paying its workers below the minimum wage on the ESB Moneypoint power station project has agreed to compensate them, it emerged tonight.